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They somehow survived the Great Depression and the bloody Spanish Civil War.Īfter the end of the Second World War, Spain-ruled by Francisco Franco, the last of the Fascist dictators-was ostracized and subject to international trade restrictions, but the Company survived that, too. These men had previously worked at Victor Sarasqueta and rather than use any one persons name, they took the name of Union Armera (UA) for their Company and a standing crane (grulla in Spanish) became their trademark. The small company that was to become Grulla Armas was formed in 1932 by five gunmakers in Eibar, Spain. It is a very nice gun and won our best SxS shotgun award for 2009.
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A FINE 12-BORE SIDELOCK EJECTOR PIGEON GUN, VICTOR SARASQUETA, EIBAR, SERIAL NO.Victor Sarasqueta Shotgun Serial Numbers By obcritinap1973 Follow | Public There were a number of other great guns in the sale, including a number of rare, pre-WW1 Spanish SxS. In fact, it’s one of the most beautiful guns I’ve ever seen.” Out of the 49 lots in the sale from the king’s gun room, this stands head and shoulders above the rest for me. Every last turn of the chisel on the stock is still absolutely sharp. It’s beautifully engraved with deep scrollwork and barely looks like it’s had a shot through it, the condition is just amazing.
So, in under a year, they built this magnificent gun. ‘Purdeys would have offered up the prize of making a gun for the winner of the competition and it happened to be the king of Spain, who was one of their great customers. This was not a case of favoritism, of letting the king win he really was a champion marksman at these competitions. 22210Īccording to Christies’ Specialist Howard Dixon: “This gun was won by His Majesty King Alphonse XIII of Spain in a live pigeon shooting competition in Madrid in May 1921. PURDEY & SONS, AUDLEY HOUSE, SOUTH AUDLEY STREET, LONDON, SERIAL NO. 10 oz., in its original brass-cornered oak and leather gun case with some accessories. KING ALFONSO XIII MAY 1921’, weight 7 lbs. stock with chequered butt, the underside of the butt inlaid with pierced gold escutcheon engraved with the Spanish Royal Arms, the heel of the comb inlaid with a gold escutcheon engraved ‘PRIZE PRESENTED TO THE TIRO – PICHON DE MADRID BY J.
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full and full choke, signed action with side-clipped carved percussion fences, gold-washed strikers, and signed rebounding locks, the action, toplever, locks, hammers, trigger-guard and fore-end iron finely engraved throughout with foliate scrollwork and retaining virtually all their original deep blued finish, highly figured 14 ½ in. (81.3 cm.) blacked signed nitro chopperlump Whitworth steel barrels with raised matt rib, 2 ¾ in.
The king of Spain’s winning gun – an incredible Purdey hammergunĪ VERY FINE 12-BORE TOPLEVER LIVE PIGEON HAMMERGUN : J.
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