A pair of 12-bore sidelock ejector guns by J. Rigby & Co., no. 17381/2The toplevers and ribs inlaid '1' and '2' in gold, forends numbered, Rigby-Bissell rising third-grips, action patent use number 521, dipped-edge lockplates, best foliate-scroll engraving with maker's name, the well-figured stocks (both with inset repairs at the cheek) with horn butt-plates, the barrels (loose on the actions) with game-ribs engraved 'John, Rigby & Co., 72 St. James's Street, London' Weight 6lb. 8oz. (No.1) & 6lb. 8½oz. (No.2), 14¾in. pulls (14½in. stocks), 30in. barrels, approx. I.C. & ⅝ (No.1) and ⅜ & ⅝ (No.2) chokes, 2½in. chambers, Birmingham nitro reproof (No.1) & London nitro proof (No.2) (both left barrels-thickness's at 19 thou.) In a brass mounted oak and leather case with trade-labelFootnotesThe makers have kindly confirmed that these guns were completed in 1906 for a Captain R. S. Chadwick
A pair of 12-bore sidelock ejector guns by J. Rigby & Co., no. 17381/2The toplevers and ribs inlaid '1' and '2' in gold, forends numbered, Rigby-Bissell rising third-grips, action patent use number 521, dipped-edge lockplates, best foliate-scroll engraving with maker's name, the well-figured stocks (both with inset repairs at the cheek) with horn butt-plates, the barrels (loose on the actions) with game-ribs engraved 'John, Rigby & Co., 72 St. James's Street, London' Weight 6lb. 8oz. (No.1) & 6lb. 8½oz. (No.2), 14¾in. pulls (14½in. stocks), 30in. barrels, approx. I.C. & ⅝ (No.1) and ⅜ & ⅝ (No.2) chokes, 2½in. chambers, Birmingham nitro reproof (No.1) & London nitro proof (No.2) (both left barrels-thickness's at 19 thou.) In a brass mounted oak and leather case with trade-labelFootnotesThe makers have kindly confirmed that these guns were completed in 1906 for a Captain R. S. Chadwick
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