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BY ELSTON, DONCASTER, CIRCA 1765
Details
An 18-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Elston, Doncaster, circa 1765
With two-stage Italian barrel with silver fore-sight and turned girdle, the breech stamped 'A. Tortiglione. Fecit' and with gold-lined marks of Egidio Leoni of Ruosina (Neue Støckel 7776), the lining of the second mark missing, gold-lined touch-hole, engraved grooved tang, signed border engraved flat bevelled lock, figured walnut full stock, engraved iron mounts, trigger-guard with first pattern acorn finial, butt-plate numbered '1', chiselled side-plate decorated with a shell and foliage, and later horn-tipped ramrod with worm (some wear throughout)
37½in. (95.7cm.) barrel
By Elston, Doncaster, circa 1765
With two-stage Italian barrel with silver fore-sight and turned girdle, the breech stamped 'A. Tortiglione. Fecit' and with gold-lined marks of Egidio Leoni of Ruosina (Neue Støckel 7776), the lining of the second mark missing, gold-lined touch-hole, engraved grooved tang, signed border engraved flat bevelled lock, figured walnut full stock, engraved iron mounts, trigger-guard with first pattern acorn finial, butt-plate numbered '1', chiselled side-plate decorated with a shell and foliage, and later horn-tipped ramrod with worm (some wear throughout)
37½in. (95.7cm.) barrel
Provenance
Charles, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (d. 1782), Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire
Listed as '1. Pistoia Gun' in the inventory of the gun cabinet drawn up in 1782
Listed as '1. Pistoia Gun' in the inventory of the gun cabinet drawn up in 1782
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, p. 99, plates 325-8, 331
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.