Lot Essay
This is the penultimate flintlock gun built by Samuel and Charles Smith
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BY SAM.L & C. SMITH, 64 PRINCES STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE, LONDON, NO. 5524 FOR 1846
Details
A Fine Cased 13-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Sam.l & C. Smith, 64 Princes Street, Leicester Square, London, No. 5524 for 1846
With browned twist barrel and silver fore-sight, the breech section octagonal then sixteen-sided and signed on the top flat, case-hardened recessed patent breech with four platinum lines and platinum-lined touch-hole, case-hardened tang finely engraved with scrolls and a roosting pheasant, signed engraved case-hardened serial numbered lock inscribed 'Patent 3486' to the rear of the swept rainproof pan, blued roller and steel-spring, the steel engraved 'Patent Self Primer 3486', rounded cock, and chequered jaw-screw, lacquered finely figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, finely engraved blued iron mounts decorated with scrolling foliage and vignettes of game birds, silver escutcheon and fore-end cap, and original brass-mounted ramrod, in near-new almost unused condition: in original lined and fitted serial numbered oak case with numerous accessories (stitching defective on shot-flask), the lid with trade label for 1825-69, the exterior with flush-fitting carrying handle and circular escutcheon, in unusually fine condition throughout, London proof marks
33in. (83.8cm.) barrel
By Sam.l & C. Smith, 64 Princes Street, Leicester Square, London, No. 5524 for 1846
With browned twist barrel and silver fore-sight, the breech section octagonal then sixteen-sided and signed on the top flat, case-hardened recessed patent breech with four platinum lines and platinum-lined touch-hole, case-hardened tang finely engraved with scrolls and a roosting pheasant, signed engraved case-hardened serial numbered lock inscribed 'Patent 3486' to the rear of the swept rainproof pan, blued roller and steel-spring, the steel engraved 'Patent Self Primer 3486', rounded cock, and chequered jaw-screw, lacquered finely figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, finely engraved blued iron mounts decorated with scrolling foliage and vignettes of game birds, silver escutcheon and fore-end cap, and original brass-mounted ramrod, in near-new almost unused condition: in original lined and fitted serial numbered oak case with numerous accessories (stitching defective on shot-flask), the lid with trade label for 1825-69, the exterior with flush-fitting carrying handle and circular escutcheon, in unusually fine condition throughout, London proof marks
33in. (83.8cm.) barrel
Provenance
D. Donald (circa 1950)
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, British Gunmakers Their Trade Cards, Cases and Equipment 1760-1860, plate 472
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.