The Purdey Purdey SxS Pigeon Gun #17 is a Shotgun first produced in 1946. It carries a scarcity score of 93/100 based on tracked survey data, with 10 active listings currently on the secondary market and a global benchmark price of $120,184.
This Purdey side-by-side is a pigeon gun from James Purdey & Sons, the London firm founded in 1814 and long regarded among the very finest of the English bespoke gunmaking houses. Pigeon guns were built to a heavier, more robust specification than standard game guns, with tighter chokes suited to the competitive live pigeon shooting matches that flourished as a fashionable and often high-stakes sporting pursuit across Europe from the nineteenth century onward. Produced in 1946, this gun dates to the early postwar period, when Britain's finest gunmaking houses were only beginning to resume full bespoke production after wartime factories had been redirected to military manufacture, making guns from these first postwar years comparatively scarce. Purdey's continued output through this difficult period underscores the firm's enduring position at the top of the London gun trade.
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