Lot 71
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A 19-Bore D.B. Flintlock Sporting Gun
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A 19-Bore D.B. Flintlock Sporting Gun

BY JOHN TWIGG, LONDON, CIRCA 1775

Details
A 19-Bore D.B. Flintlock Sporting Gun
By John Twigg, London, circa 1775
With rebrowned twist barrels with top rib only and silver fore-sight, the left barrel with second form of signature (worn), at the rear of each breech an engraved band of beadwork, gold-lined touch-holes, finely engraved grooved tang, flat locks each with roller, moulded border, stepped tail, and second form of signature, figured walnut half-stock (an early working replacement), chequered grip, engraved iron mounts including trigger-guard with second pattern acorn finial, silver escutcheon, and horn-tipped ramrod with worm, London proof marks
33½in. (85cm.) barrels
Provenance
The Earl of Minto, W. & F.C. Bonham & Sons, London, 18 November 1953, lot 268 (£3.5.0.)
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, pp. 56, 58-59, 171-2, plates 165-7
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

The original owner was probably Gilbert Elliot (1751-1814), created Baron Minto of Minto in 1798, barrister and M.P., and Governor-General of India, 1807-1813. Created 1st Earl of Minto in 1813, he was buried in the following year in Westminster Abbey

The left lock of this gun, missing from it in the 1953 auction, was acquired by Keith Neal some fifteen years later in exchange for a lock by Manton

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