Ok, so it's had a nice new stock fitted with the wrong checkering pattern, new barrels and someone has poorly scribbled the serial number into the fore-end iron and barrels.

The other thing worth noting its an earlier style action carrying the A&D patent use number which seems out of sync with the higher serial number of the gun.

Would be interesting to find out from Purdey's what the gun spec was when made.

Regards,
J-PD