BY JOHN DICKSON & SON, 63 PRINCES STREET, EDINBURGH, NO. 2313 FOR 1862

Details

A Fine Cased 12-Bore Scottish D.B. Pin-Fire Shotgun
By John Dickson & Son, 63 Princes Street, Edinburgh, No. 2313 for 1862
With browned barrels of fine damascus twist pattern each engraved at the rear with a band of foliage and a sunburst, signed rib numbered '1' and engraved with scrollwork at the rear, case-hardened tang, action, underlever, trigger-guard, and signed locks all finely engraved with scrollwork, blued scroll engraved trigger-plate, finely figured varnished walnut butt, chequered grip and bar-in-wood fore-end (the latter bruised), blued iron butt-plate numbered '1' and engraved on the tang with black game and scrollwork, silver escutcheon engraved with owner's crest and motto of Trotter, and nearly all its original finish: in lined and fitted two-tier leather case with numerous accessories, mainly by Hawksley, and a number of original Eley 12-bore pin-fire cartridges, the lid with stamped and gilt inscription 'Lieut. Colonel Trotter No. 1', London black powder proof marks
30in. (76.2cm.) barrels

Literature

Richard Akehurst, Game Guns and Rifles, p. 53 plates 33-35

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Completed 3 December 1862 for John Fletcher of Saltoun
The cartridges will be made conditionally available to the purchaser of this lot

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