拍品 136
136
A FINE 16-BORE SCOTTISH FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN

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A FINE 16-BORE SCOTTISH FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN

BY JOHN DICKSON & SON, 63 PRINCES STREET, EDINBURGH, NO. 4589 FOR 1893

With browned damascus barrel signed in full on the short octagonal breech section and with scroll engraved patent breech and platinum-lined touch-hole, scroll engraved case-hardened tang, signed scroll engraved case-hardened lock with roller, swept rainproof pan, and ventilated pan-cover, finely figured varnished walnut half-stock, chequered grip, scroll engraved blued iron mounts, case-hardened trigger-plate with large pineapple finial, engraved case-hardened barrel-bolt escutcheons, silver escutcheon, horn fore-end cap, original brass-mounted ramrod, and nearly all its original finish throughout, London proof marks
34 15/16in. barrel

拍品專文

Delivered to the eccentric Charles Gordon on 10 April 1893, and like many firearms commissioned by him, probably never fired.

This is probably the Dickson gun exhibited by the late owner at the British Sporting Exhibition at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, 14-30 January 1938, No. 48. See also lots 60, 76, and 117