BY DURS EGG, LONDON, CIRCA 1790-1800

Details

A Very Rare 18-Bore Over-And-Under Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Durs Egg, London, circa 1790-1800
With rebrowned twist two-stage barrels each with chiselled girdle, the octagonal breech sections each with gold-inlaid signature 'D. Egg, Londini, Fecit,', gold-lined touch-hole, and two gold lines at the rear, the upper barrel with silver fore-sight, finely engraved tang, signed engraved bevelled locks each with roller, stepped tail, and gold-lined semi-rainproof pan (left cock repaired, right cock an old working replacement), finely figured walnut half-stock carved in relief with a floral spray behind the barrel tang, chequered grip (cracked) inset with owner's crest in silver, cheek-piece, finely engraved iron mounts including trigger-guard in the French manner, single iron sling mount, and later horn-tipped ramrod (some wear, iron parts with areas of surface pitting)
31½. (80cm.) barrels

Provenance

Anon. sale (from the Fauré-Lepage Collection), Etude Couturier-Nicolay, Palais Galleria, Paris, 3 June 1976, lot 21 (FF 18,000 plus premium, to Neal)

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

Durs Egg, like most of the leading London gunmakers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, made nearly all his double sporting guns with barrels set side-by-side. However a straight-grooved over-and-under Durs Egg sporting gun, now in a private collection in this country, was sold by Phillips, Son and Neale, London, 4 July 1996, lot 1134

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