Did you read the article on the Purdey hammer gun.

Here's what the author Robert Matthews in Sporting Classics had to say about fine hammer guns.

"I know nothing, short of the human female form, that combines elegance, grace and beauty, or vibrant response to human touch so well as a fine double gun with hammers. This I can no more explain than I can explain the timeless beauty of the Venus De Milo, or Elle McPherson. But few of mans creations so obscure the boundary between sensuous and sensual."