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BY WILLIAM SMITH, PRINCES STREET, LONDON, NO. 2612 FOR 1820
Details
A Fine 18-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
By William Smith, Princes Street, London, No. 2612 for 1820
With rebrowned two-stage twist barrel and silver fore-sight, signed octagonal breech section changing to sixteen-sided, recessed patent breech with four platinum lines and platinum-lined touch-hole, shaped scroll engraved tang, signed flat serial numbered lock engraved with scrolls and monster-heads and inscribed 'Patent 2048' to the rear of the swept rainproof pan, the steel (refaced) with roller, fiddle-pattern maple half-stock, chequered grip, scroll engraved iron mounts, silver escutcheon and fore-end cap, and iron-tipped ramrod (minor rust pitting), London proof marks
32½in. (81.3cm.) barrel
By William Smith, Princes Street, London, No. 2612 for 1820
With rebrowned two-stage twist barrel and silver fore-sight, signed octagonal breech section changing to sixteen-sided, recessed patent breech with four platinum lines and platinum-lined touch-hole, shaped scroll engraved tang, signed flat serial numbered lock engraved with scrolls and monster-heads and inscribed 'Patent 2048' to the rear of the swept rainproof pan, the steel (refaced) with roller, fiddle-pattern maple half-stock, chequered grip, scroll engraved iron mounts, silver escutcheon and fore-end cap, and iron-tipped ramrod (minor rust pitting), London proof marks
32½in. (81.3cm.) barrel
Provenance
Charles Gordon. Believed by the late owner to have been used by Gordon, the famous eccentric, as the model for the flintlock firearms commissioned at the turn of the 19th century from Dickson and Purdey
Literature
Richard Akehurst, The World of Guns, p. 49 (illustrated)
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.