Purdey pigeon gun
There is a general preconception that guns devoid of engraving are cheaper guns and guns with profuse engraving are better quality guns. Generally this is true, as engraving, until fairly recently, was executed by hand and was time consuming.
Like all maxims there are exceptions and very occasionally a top quality gun with little or no engraving will be encountered. Probably the best-known quality gun with border engraving only is the Holland & Holland No.3 or Dominion model built with
