Nikita Kruschev s MTs 11 Communist Party Shotgun

This shotgun is lot, 1256 at Morphy s April 2019 auction: Presented to Nikita Kruschev at the opening of the 21st session of the Communist Party session in 1959, this is an example of the best sporting arms being made in the Soviet Union at the time. It is an MTs11 (МЦ11) side by side double gun, mechanically a Beesleypatent Purdey type with plenty of bold engraving. Only some 600 MTs11 guns were made between 1951 and 19