BY WILLIAM HERIOT, EDINBURGH, CIRCA 1765

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A 14-Bore Scottish Silver-Mounted Flintlock Sporting Gun
By William Heriot, Edinburgh, circa 1765
With two-stage Spanish barrel, turned girdle, silver fore-sight, and gold-lined touch-hole, struck on the top of the octagonal breech with maker's mark of José Pedro Aguirre of Eibar, foliate engraved grooved tang, foliate engraved flat bevelled lock signed on a ribbon and with stepped tail (top jaw and screw replaced), figured walnut full stock (chipped and bruised) carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel tang and with take-down fore-end, full silver mounts engraved with foliage, pierced side-plate cast and chased with flowers and foliage, trigger-guard with first pattern acorn finial, cast and chased rococo escutcheon, three engraved silver ramrod-pipes, and later iron-capped ramrod (some wear and surface pitting)
37½in. (95.2cm.) barrel

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

A handwritten note in the barrel records that this gun was acquired by Keith Neal in Folkestone in about 1940, and that it is believed to have belonged to the Grant family. It was part of a group of weapons, some of them Scottish, together with 'a pair of long double barrel wender pistols by Harman Barne'- no doubt the pair now in the Royal Armouries, Leeds (inv. nos. XII. 4743-4)

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