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BY BENJAMIN GRIFFIN, LONDON, CIRCA 1750
Details
An 18-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Benjamin Griffin, London, circa 1750
With two-stage Spanish barrel with silver spider fore-sight and turned and beaded girdle, the breech section octagonal changing to sixteen-sided and stamped with two maker's marks of Juan Santos of Madrid (Neue Støckel 990, 983) and nine decorative marks, gold-lined touch-hole, engraved grooved tang, rounded lock with moulded border and signed on a foliate ribbon, the pan with water-drains, walnut half-stock, engraved iron mounts, rounded scroll side-plate, trigger-guard with first pattern acorn finial, butt-plate numbered '2', iron fore-end cap, two silver ramrod-pipes, and later horn-tipped ramrod (some wear and surface pitting)
42¾in. (108.6cm.) barrel
By Benjamin Griffin, London, circa 1750
With two-stage Spanish barrel with silver spider fore-sight and turned and beaded girdle, the breech section octagonal changing to sixteen-sided and stamped with two maker's marks of Juan Santos of Madrid (Neue Støckel 990, 983) and nine decorative marks, gold-lined touch-hole, engraved grooved tang, rounded lock with moulded border and signed on a foliate ribbon, the pan with water-drains, walnut half-stock, engraved iron mounts, rounded scroll side-plate, trigger-guard with first pattern acorn finial, butt-plate numbered '2', iron fore-end cap, two silver ramrod-pipes, and later horn-tipped ramrod (some wear and surface pitting)
42¾in. (108.6cm.) barrel
Provenance
Charles, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (d. 1782), Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire
Listed as '2. Old Spanish Gun' in the inventory of the gun-cabinet drawn up in 1782 (cf. lots 45-46 in the Keith Neal Collection sale of 9 November 2000)
Listed as '2. Old Spanish Gun' in the inventory of the gun-cabinet drawn up in 1782 (cf. lots 45-46 in the Keith Neal Collection sale of 9 November 2000)
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, pp. 99-100, plates 329-332
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.