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J. PURDEY & SONS
A FINE PAIR OF 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS, NOS. 21785/6
30-inch chopper-lump Whitworth steel barrels with 2 1/2-inch chambers, about 1/4 and 3/4 choke borings, the frames, locks and numbered top levers with fine bouquet and scroll engraving and retaining much original hardening colour, lined cocking indicators, 15 1/2-inch well figured stocks, 6lb. 12oz., nitro proof, in their maker's brassbound oak and leather double gun case
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The maker confirms that the guns were built in 1920 for Major G Greaves with 30-inch barrels and 15 1/2-inch stocks. The guns remain to this specification today and appear unaltered from new. They are formerly the property of Paul Channon, the former Conservative MP and later Baron Kelvedon.
Henry Paul Guinness Channon was born in 1935 and educated at Eton. He was still an undergraduate at Oxford when he was elected as MP for Southend West in January 1959. The seat had family connections as his grandfather, Rupert Guinness, became MP here in 1918. The seat was subsequently held by his grandmother and then his father until his death in 1958. Channon held various ministerial positions over the years, including Secretary of State for Transport, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and MInister of State for the Arts. He retired from Parliament in 1997, was created a life peer as Baron Kelvedon and died in 2007. |
Sold for £27000
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| Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns |
| Sotheby's, London |
| 13 December 2017 |
| Commission is 25% ex. VAT. Artist's Resale Right may apply |
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