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Sporting Guns at Gavin Gardiner

For collectors of sporting guns, it’s hard to beat the cachet of those made by J. Purdey & Sons, Holland & Holland, EJ Churchill, and Boss & Co. Examples from all these makers will be represented at Gavin Gardiner’s auction in Scotland, to be held in collaboration with Sotheby’s on August 22. One of the offerings, however, is particularly special. It’s a Ken Hunt engraved 12-bore single trigger sidelock ejector over and under gun by J.Purdey & Sons that’s expected to sell for as much as $155,000.