BY FORSYTH & CO. PATENT GUN MAKERS LONDON, NOS. 738 AND 739, CIRCA 1813

細節

A Fine And Rare 20-Bore D.B. Forsyth Patent Sliding Primer Sporting Gun
By Forsyth & Co. Patent Gun Makers London, Nos. 738 and 739, circa 1813
With rebrowned twist barrels signed in full on the rib and with gold fore-sight, case-hardened patent breeches engraved with foliage at the centre and each with two gold lines, finely engraved grooved tang, signed serial numbered flat border engraved bevelled locks each engraved on the tail with a retriever, engraved serial numbered primers each with two rollers, figured walnut half-stock (minor bruising, chipped at the front of the right lock), chequered grip and fore-end, finely engraved blued iron mounts including scroll trigger-guard, blued trigger-plate with pineapple finial, cloth-covered cheek-pad (cloth defective), engraved silver rear ramrod-pipe, gold escutcheon engraved with earl's coronet and the initial 'Y', iron sling mounts, and brass-mounted ramrod, London proof marks, the barrels forged by William Fullerd
32in. (81.3cm.) barrels

來源

The Earl of Yarmouth (1777-1842)
Sir Richard Wallace (1818-1890), founder of the Wallace Collection, now at Hertford House, Manchester Square, London
Dr. Adams
Arthur Rosling of Chelmsford, Essex (for whom, see footnote to lot 42)

出版

W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Forsyth & Co.: Patent Gunmakers, pp. 7-8, 39-40, plates 18,19, and colour plate 1
D.H.L. Back, Forsyth & Co.: Patent Gunmakers, pp. 18-19, 38, plates 11 a, b, and colour plate IV

展覽

The British Sporting Exhibition at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, 14-30 January 1938, cat. no. 35
The Game Fair, Longleat House, 1962

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品專文

Described by D.H.L. Back (op. cit., p. 19) as follows: 'This gun is preserved in immaculate condition and is the finest example that the author has been able to discover of Forsyth's work'

The original owner of this gun, Francis Charles Seymour-Conway (1777-1842), third Marquess of Hertford, and Earl of Yarmouth from 1794 to 1822, was the only son of the second Marquess of Hertford (1743-1822). He graduated B.A. from St. Mary Hall, Oxford, in 1796, and represented the family boroughs of Orford, Lisburne, and Camelford (1819-1822). In 1827 he was envoy extraordinary to Czar Nicholas I of Russia, but he is best remembered as the original of the Marquis of Steyne in Thackeray's Vanity Fair, and Lord Monmouth in Disraeli's Coningsby. Yarmouth was a friend of the Prince of Wales (later King George IV), of whose household he was vice-chamberlain, and of his brother, the Duke of York. A keen shot, both in the field and at Joe Manton's shooting gallery at Davies Street, he frequently shot at the wafer for considerable sums. On 18 December, 1816, he gave evidence in the case brought by Forsyth against Joe Manton, for alleged violation of his Patent No. 3032 of 11 April 1807

He was succeeded by Richard Seymour-Conway (1800-1870), fourth Marquess, father of Sir Richard Wallace