Live Auction 6606FINE SPORTING GUNS AND VINTAGE FIREARMS
THE ACTION AND STOCK OF A 14-BORE BASE-FIRE HAMMER GUN BY C. LANCASTER, NO. 3240
Lot 12A ROYAL LANCASTER HAMMER GUN

THE ACTION AND STOCK OF A 14-BORE BASE-FIRE HAMMER GUN BY C. LANCASTER, NO. 3240

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THE ACTION AND STOCK OF A 14-BORE BASE-FIRE HAMMER GUN BY C. LANCASTER, NO. 3240
The action incorporating linked hammers and strikers, the externally-mounted mechanisms acting to retract the strikers, rotary-underlever, bold foliate-scroll engraving, the well-figured stock with iron butt-plate
14¼in. pull

Specialist note

The makers have kindly confirmed that this gun was completed in 1859 for H.R.H. Prince Albert. Their records also show that the gun was returned to them in 1860 for replacement barrels. The subsequent history of the gun is unclear but there is a possibility that the entire gun was rebuilt as gun No. 3240 is recorded as being in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle. The only other known examples of guns with this external mechanism are also held there, thereby indicating that this mechanism was a Royal innovation