Lot Essay
This much used (and presumably much trusted) gun is the earliest double Twigg gun recorded
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BY JOHN TWIGG, LONDON, CIRCA 1766-70
Details
A 22-Bore Early D.B. Flintlock Sporting Gun
By John Twigg, London, circa 1766-70
With browned French barrels by a member of the Leclerc family of Paris, fitted with top rib only, silver fore-sight, and gold-lined touch-holes, finely engraved grooved tang, large flat locks each with roller (a working modification), moulded border, grooved steel in the Spanish manner, stepped steel, gold-lined pan (gold incomplete), intercepting sear, and second form of signature, single lock retaining screw (replaced, front screw attachment adapted to hooks), figured walnut half-stock without butt-plate (cracks, chips, and bruises) carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel tang and with contemporary repair behind the grip, leather-covered cheek-pad, finely engraved iron mounts including trigger-guard in the French style with second pattern acorn finial, and horn-tipped ramrod with worm (some wear, and areas of surface pitting)
32in. (81.7cm.) barrels
By John Twigg, London, circa 1766-70
With browned French barrels by a member of the Leclerc family of Paris, fitted with top rib only, silver fore-sight, and gold-lined touch-holes, finely engraved grooved tang, large flat locks each with roller (a working modification), moulded border, grooved steel in the Spanish manner, stepped steel, gold-lined pan (gold incomplete), intercepting sear, and second form of signature, single lock retaining screw (replaced, front screw attachment adapted to hooks), figured walnut half-stock without butt-plate (cracks, chips, and bruises) carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel tang and with contemporary repair behind the grip, leather-covered cheek-pad, finely engraved iron mounts including trigger-guard in the French style with second pattern acorn finial, and horn-tipped ramrod with worm (some wear, and areas of surface pitting)
32in. (81.7cm.) barrels
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, p. 168, plates 162-164
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.