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Stunning True Trio of Master Charles Lee Signed and Engraved David McKay Brown Round Body Double Barrel Shotguns with Case -A) David McKay Brown Round Body Shotgun - Serial no. 7481, 12 gauge, 27 inch solid rib bbl., blue/casehardened finish, walnut stock. David McKay Brown founded his company in 1967
after apprenticing with John Dickson & Sons, and by 1974 he had revived Scotland’s most famous contribution to fine gunmaking, the triggerplate round action. Since then
the company has grown to be one of the finest bespoke gunmakers in the United Kingdom, rivaling even the oldest names in the business such as Purdey, Holland & Holland, and Westley Richards to list a few, with a trio of guns such as this worthy of a place in the finest collections in the world. Each of these fine guns was built with blued steel chopperlump barrels featuring a single nickel bead sight on the smooth concave solid rib which is signed “DAVID McKAY BROWN (GUNMAKERS) LTD. ,32. HAMILTON ROAD, BOTHWELL” along with a flourish of scroll engraving and a gold inlaid “1”, “2”, or “3” denoting each gun’s place in the trio, single bands of engraving at either breech, 1990 dated London proofs (1992 for gun “3”), and 2 3/4” chambers with automatic ejectors.
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