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BY WILLIAM BARKER, WIGAN, LONDON SILVER HALLMARKS FOR 1774
Details
A 16-BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN
By William Barker, Wigan, London silver hallmarks for 1774
With shortened rebrowned two-stage barrel with turned girdle and silver fore-sight, the top of the octagonal breech with gold-lined maker's stamp (Neue Støckel 7063), gold-lined touch-hole, finely engraved grooved tang, signed flat lock (pitted below the pan and the steel-spring) with moulded border, roller, and gold-lined pan, figured walnut half-stock (minor bruising) carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel tang, chequered grip with a dimple in the centre of each diamond, engraved silver trigger-guard, engraved cut-out silver butt-plate involving a panel chased with owner's initials 'AC', engraved silver rear ramrod-pipe, horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod with worm, Tower proof marks, silver maker's mark of John King
31in. (78.7cm.) barrel
By William Barker, Wigan, London silver hallmarks for 1774
With shortened rebrowned two-stage barrel with turned girdle and silver fore-sight, the top of the octagonal breech with gold-lined maker's stamp (Neue Støckel 7063), gold-lined touch-hole, finely engraved grooved tang, signed flat lock (pitted below the pan and the steel-spring) with moulded border, roller, and gold-lined pan, figured walnut half-stock (minor bruising) carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel tang, chequered grip with a dimple in the centre of each diamond, engraved silver trigger-guard, engraved cut-out silver butt-plate involving a panel chased with owner's initials 'AC', engraved silver rear ramrod-pipe, horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod with worm, Tower proof marks, silver maker's mark of John King
31in. (78.7cm.) barrel
Provenance
W. Keith Neal, sold in these Rooms, 25 October 2001, lot 43
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, pp. 117-118, plates 452-454
See A. Littler, 'An Old Wigan Trade', Journal of The Society of Archer-Antiquaries, vol. 34 (1991), pp. 30-41
See A. Littler, 'An Old Wigan Trade', Journal of The Society of Archer-Antiquaries, vol. 34 (1991), pp. 30-41
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.