Lot Essay
The trade label is of the type illustrated in H. Lee Munson, The Mortimer Gunmakers, plate 449
Sold with the late owner's typed note giving details of the gun's prowess (including four starlings on the wing with one shot), the acquisition of the gun for 30/- in about 1930, and of the case for 5/-. The gun was often used when shooting at Priddy in the Mendips before the Second World War, with George Mullins who 'always thought it the best shooting flint gun he had ever seen. In those days the old locals could still remember the flint guns which had been in use when they were children. They referred to them as those old stone guns'
Sold with the late owner's typed note giving details of the gun's prowess (including four starlings on the wing with one shot), the acquisition of the gun for 30/- in about 1930, and of the case for 5/-. The gun was often used when shooting at Priddy in the Mendips before the Second World War, with George Mullins who 'always thought it the best shooting flint gun he had ever seen. In those days the old locals could still remember the flint guns which had been in use when they were children. They referred to them as those old stone guns'