Lot 151
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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A RARE DICKSON & MURRAY 1882 PATENT THREE-BARRELLED 16-BORE ROUND-ACTION GUN BY J. DICKSON, No. 3732, Dickson & Murray's patent No. 2, action patent No. 50, sidelever action with quadruple-bolts engaging two pairs of lumps in parallel, three-trigger round-action non-ejector mechanism, with articulation, gold cocking-indicator pins, automatic safe, each fence carved with a lobate bolster, best foliate-scroll engraving with traces of hardening-colour, well-figured stock (inserts at the head) with ornate border chequering and extension, lever-latch forend with horn tip, the browned fine damascus barrels arranged in line, with twin sunken ribs and central small muzzle-bead

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A RARE DICKSON & MURRAY 1882 PATENT THREE-BARRELLED 16-BORE ROUND-ACTION GUN BY J. DICKSON, No. 3732, Dickson & Murray's patent No. 2, action patent No. 50, sidelever action with quadruple-bolts engaging two pairs of lumps in parallel, three-trigger round-action non-ejector mechanism, with articulation, gold cocking-indicator pins, automatic safe, each fence carved with a lobate bolster, best foliate-scroll engraving with traces of hardening-colour, well-figured stock (inserts at the head) with ornate border chequering and extension, lever-latch forend with horn tip, the browned fine damascus barrels arranged in line, with twin sunken ribs and central small muzzle-bead
Weight 7lb. 3oz., 14¾in. pull, 28in. barrels, choke approx. cyl. (right), I.C. (mid) and 5/8 (left), 2½in. chambers, Black Powder proof

Lot Essay

Dickson's have kindly confirmed that the gun was completed in 1882 for A.G. Murray, inventor, patentee of this design and, interestingly, Managing Director of Dickson's at that time. As the patent date, date of manufacture and the patent number indicate, gun No. 3732 would appear to be the second such gun to have been built by this maker.

I.M. Crudgington and D.J. Baker, The British Shotgun, II, p. 149, state that Dickson's built 27 three-barrel guns and G. Boothroyd, 'Three Into One Did Go', Shooting Times, 21st June 1990, identifies four other surviving examples: Nos. 3727, 3933, 4415 and 4889. See also G. Lupi, Tre canne di John Dickson', Diana-Armi, February and March 1989

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