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J. PURDEY & SONS
A LIGHTWEIGHT 20-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN, NO. 22924
27-inch Whitworth steel chopper-lump barrels with 2 1/2-inch chambers, about 3/8 and extra full choke borings, the rounded frame and top lever with fine bouquet and scroll engraving and retaining faint traces of original hardening colour, lined cocking indicators, articulated front trigger, 14 1/4-inch highly figured stock including slim leather-covered recoil pad, 5lb. 7oz, nitro proof, right bore marked, in its brassbound oak and leather case
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The maker confirms that the gun was built in 1925 for the Duchess of Sutherland
Eileen Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland
Born in 1891 to the 7th Earl of Lanesborough, she was married in 1912 to George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, who succeeded his father as 5th Duke of Sutherland in 1913. During the First World War she was a Red Cross nurse and was Mistress of Robes to Queen Mary from 1916 to 1921. She died in 1943. Her husband had a distinguished military career including naval service during World War I. He served as the Under Secretary of State for Air under Stanley Baldwin's government, later Paymaster General and Under Secretary of State for War. Appointed a Knight of the Thistle in 1929, he joined the Privy Council in 1936 as Lord Steward of the Household and bore the orb at the coronation of King George VI.
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| Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns |
| The Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland |
| 27 August 2018 |
| Commission is 25% ex. VAT. Artist's Resale Right may apply |
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