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T. HORSLEY & SON
A SCARCE PATENT 12-BORE SIDELOCK NON-EJECTOR GUN, NO. 2906
30-inch damascus barrels with 2 3/4-inch chambers, about improved cylinder choke borings, doll's head extension, the bar-in-wood frame, locks and patent sliding top lever with foliate scroll engraving, the maker's name signed within a banner, 14-inch figured stock variously cracked and worn with pieces missing beneath each lock plate, leather butt plate with parts missing, 6lb. 13oz., black powder proof, worn overall, bores pitted
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The gun is a rare example of Charles Horsley and Charles Pryse's patent no. 3874 of 1883. The patent has much in common with Beesley's famous patent no. 31 of 1880 and features a double-limbed mainspring that is compressed upon closing the gun. |
| £500-800
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| Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns |
| Pulbourgh, West Sussex |
| 26 November 2025 |
| Commission is 25% ex. VAT. Artist's Resale Right may apply |
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