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Check out this Purdey - I posted about it under the string about the Greenwich show: http://safarioutfittersltd.com/EnglishPage4.htmIt looks like some kind of Adams-patent action - but with a top lever rather than a Daws lever. Everything that I can find says that the Adams-patent Purdeys cocked/opened with an underlever (the Daw lever). But this gun seems to cock/open with a toplever. Does anyone have any idea what it could be? Just another version of a Purdey hammerless on an Adam's patent? Thanks OWD
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What a gorgeous gun! I like the description: "invisibly sleeved by Purdey". The sleeving shows in the pictures.
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Reminds me quite a bit of my now long gone, but much loved crofter's model F Beesley. Altho' I made a goodly profit on it - I shoulda kept it. It was that nice !
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Gentlemen, That certainly looks like a fine Beesley"Box-Lock"with its Rare Original Case,Wonderful Trade Label,Looks very much like one I worked on for The Duke of Cum****and,Years ago.Re the Side-Lock, I think a 'Call to Purdeys may throw some light on the "Sleeving by Purdey"!!Nigel Brown's book'London Gunmakers' has all the available Info. on Frederick Beesley.A coincidence here is I've just restocked a "Quite Rare variation of the Beesley Self Opening System".One of only 2 known.(Page 22-23, Browns Big Book) cc/dt
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Gentlemen, That certainly looks like a fine Beesley"Box-Lock"with its Rare Original Case,Wonderful Trade Label,Looks very much like one I worked on for The Duke of Cum****and,Years ago.Re the Side-Lock, I think a 'Call to Purdeys may throw some light on the "Sleeving by Purdey"!!Nigel Brown's book'London Gunmakers' has all the available Info. on Frederick Beesley.A coincidence here is I've just restocked a "Quite Rare variation of the Beesley Self Opening System".One of only 2 known.(Page 22-23, Browns Big Book) cc/dt +1 Either you've been working on that restock for awhile my friend, or is the SO a different one than the one you showed me kindly near mini-stonehenge a few back or did that one return for more TLC?
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Reminds me of the time a waitress asked a visiting English friend if he'd like his salad "tossed." Silence for a moment, then... "I bloody well think not."
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