doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Question for those that know Purdey hammerguns.

Here's a link from Drake's that OWD posted above that takes you to the pic that shows a definite step down--much broader and it also appears deeper than my Blanch. Do you think those Whitworth steel barrels that gun has are original to the gun or was it rebarreled by Purdey or someone else?
http://www.sitemason.com/files/caty7e/VMS54cxl.jpg
Some posters would define this as cobbled together.

Wild Skies,

I've been care-taking Purdey gun #950X for almost twenty years now. I do have the factory letter on it showing it was turned out in 1875. It is an unmessed with gun, wearing its 30" Damascus barrels, and the concave game rib is perfectly flush with that small concave portion that it abuts on the frame top. Can't but barely feel the joint with a fingertip. If I knew how to post photos (and had some on hand of that feature, which I don't) I'd post them. This is not to say that mine is the proper way, but it is how mine were done from Purdey.

I don't know Purdey hammer guns, but...

The seller's statement is simply laughable.

He does not know if the gun has been re-barreled, but if so the work was done by Purdey.

I would suggest that he only 'believes' this to make a sale.

Certainly, he's researched his own gun.

Some people are just incredible.

On that bar in wood from Drakes, not only is the rib stepped, the sharp, clean sunburst engraving on the barrel breech ends doesn't really seem to match that on the well worn action fences either....

Mine's not a toplever, but it looks like this:



And my other one:



Both are rifles and bear much later serial numbers from the early 1890s. The top one is 13577, and the bottom one is 14967.

Curl

Hi Wild Skies

Here are some photographs of my Purdey snap action built inn 1869 predating the one in your picture by seven years. The photograph taken from the side though not the best you can see how Purdey manufactured the top rib extremely deep so they became level with the action top. Also you can see how high the rib is when viewing the barrels directly from the breach end. Now I know engraving is purely personal but there is no engraving in this guns top rib at the breach in fact it is extremely plain.

Okay Gents, I have received photos from the seller, there's no doubt that it's been re-barreled. I have not yet heard back from Purdey whether they were involved with the re-barreling. I see sleeved Purdey hammerguns listed at ~ $7500 and up. Assuming the gun is still in proof and has sufficient wall thickness, what's a fair market value for a damascus re-barreled Purdey hammergun like this worth?

"Buy the gun, not the name."

were the crossed specters ever used as a London proof??

i thought that was a Birmingham BP proof

as is the 12-65 850 BAR

Ugh, I really don't know. I think I would go shopping. What are the wall thicknesses? What is the price? Are there other guns out there?