12-bore Boxlock Ejector by W. R. Leeson,
Serial No:
337
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Nice quality Boxlock with 28" original Siemens steel
barrels, the bores being perfect. Gun nitro proofed for the first time
in 2000. Top rib
engraved W. R. Leeson, Ashford, Kent Siemens Steel. Right barrel
choked Improved and left barrel choked 1/4. Webley
Screw Grip third bite fitted with Dolls Head extension.
14" straight hand English stock,
well figured with original engraved steel butt plate, plain in-laid gold
escutcheon.
Nice scroll and border engraving to
both action and fences. Action engraved W. R Leeson, Patent Screw Grip.
Action fitted with disk set strikers. Very slight signs of original heat treatment to action. The fore-end is
fitted with the Grip forend as patented by Charles Harvey c.1866. Being a
relatively early Leeson, it does not have the fine fluted (Leeson) fences that
appear on many later shotguns.
Cased in its original canvas brass cornered
motor case, sadly without Leeson's trade label.
The last icon displays a sale receipt dated 28th June 1940 when a
previous owner purchased the gun and case from E. J. Churchill for £19 !