Lot Essay
Sold with a letter from the County Archivist, Buckinghamshire County Council (of January 1980), which attempts to trace Jeremiah Brown
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EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Details
An Unusual 12-Bore English Miquelet-Lock Sporting Gun
Early 18th Century
With earlier russet Turkish barrel in three stages overlaid with silver bands and with silver-inlaid decoration at the shaped muzzle and octagonal breech, slotted silver fore-sight, and silver-inlaid standing single-aperture back-sight (some silver missing, some pitting), large Turkish lock inlaid with brass scrollwork (top jaw and screw replaced), moulded lightly carved figured walnut three-quarter stock (chips and cracks), cast brass mounts engraved with foliage, the trigger-guard with long foliate tang, and horn-tipped ramrod, the right side of the butt with old handwritten label relating to the original owner of the gun, "Jeremiah Brown Esq.e" of Haversham, Bucks
45in. (114.3cm.) barrel
Early 18th Century
With earlier russet Turkish barrel in three stages overlaid with silver bands and with silver-inlaid decoration at the shaped muzzle and octagonal breech, slotted silver fore-sight, and silver-inlaid standing single-aperture back-sight (some silver missing, some pitting), large Turkish lock inlaid with brass scrollwork (top jaw and screw replaced), moulded lightly carved figured walnut three-quarter stock (chips and cracks), cast brass mounts engraved with foliage, the trigger-guard with long foliate tang, and horn-tipped ramrod, the right side of the butt with old handwritten label relating to the original owner of the gun, "Jeremiah Brown Esq.e" of Haversham, Bucks
45in. (114.3cm.) barrel
Provenance
Anon. sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 16 October 1979, lot 159 (£352 including premium, to Neal)
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.