Product Details
J. PURDEY & SONS
A PAIR OF 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTORS, serial no. 19306 / 7,
29in. nitro chopperlump barrels (No.2 barrels reproved in 2018, No.1 loose on action and require re-jointing, wall thicknesses all below recommended minimum ), ribs engraved 'J. PURDEY & SONS. AUDLEY HOUSE. SOUTH AUDLEY STREET. LONDON.' (worn) and engraved '1' and '2' at the breech ends, 2 1/2in. chambers, bored approx. 1/4 and full choke (both), self-opening actions, toplevers engraved '1' and '2', automatic safeties with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' details, removable striker discs, fine bouquet and scroll engraving, brushed finish, 14 3/4in. figured semi-pistolgrip stocks including 3/4in. rubber recoil pads, weight 6lb. 8oz. (No.1) 6lb. 7oz. (No.2), in their makers brass-cornered oak and leather double guncase
Provenance: The vendor has kindly provided us with the following information:
"The Guns were made for Mr. Champion an English industrialist who owned the Riddlesworth Estate on the Norfolk / Suffolk border. Mr. Champion had no sons, and on his death the guns came to my late father in law Mr. C.H. Murton Webb, who farmed the estate for the Champions. Riddlesworth Hall became a girl's school attended at one time by Princess Diana.
My father in law who was a keen shot ran his own shoot on the Riddlesworth Estate, he was not short of invitations and shot on many of the major estates in East Anglia. He was a member of the Euston Syndicate (Duke of Grafton). At the time, he would be shooting 2 to 3 times a week during the season, plus times on the North Yorkshire moors and the Scottish Borders, shooting grouse. A few years before he died he decided to give up shooting, and gave the guns to me. I decided to have the guns serviced and given a general overhaul by Mr. Chapman, a retired Purdey gunsmith.
I was born in England, during the war, my father was in the Danish Diplomatic service and because of the German occupation of Denmark he remained with the Danish Embassy throughout the war. After my Danish education and National Service in the Royal Danish Guards I returned to England, working for an International grain Commodity and Shipping Company. I met my wife, Susan, skiing in Austria and we have 2 daughters both married. All my working life we lived in London, but now after I retired live in Suffolk in my wife's family house.
My mother was Swedish, her maiden name was Carlander. The Carlander family originates from Goteborg. My great, great grandfather Christopher Carlander and my great grandfather Axel Carlander were both industrialists involved in the founding of the SKF ball bearing company, Gammelstaden, a textile company and Volvo. The family lied in a large villa then slightly outside Goteborg, on Lyckansvagen.
Christopher and Axel Carlander financed the building of the Carlanderska Hospital, largely paid for from the proceeds of the SKF fortune. The hospital is today a modern, up to date hospital with many specialised departments. My Grandparents, Olof and Louise Carlander, moved away from Goteborg and bought an estate on lake Vanern, where my grandfather farmed. My grandmother was born von Hofsten and also came from the county of Vastergotland
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Estimate £5,000-7,000
S2 - Sold as a Section 2 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act