BY W.A. BECKWITH, SKINNER STREET, LONDON, NO. 1468, CIRCA 1810-1815

Details

A Fine Cased 14-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
By W.A. Beckwith, Skinner Street, London, No. 1468, circa 1810-1815
With tapering browned twist barrel with silver fore-sight, signed 'W.A. Beckwith London' in gold capital letters in the short sighting groove at the breech, case-hardened patent breech with single platinum line, gold sunburst, and platinum-lined touch-hole, finely engraved grooved case-hardened tang, serial numbered signed engraved case-hardened lock with roller, blued steel-spring, rounded stepped tail, rainproof pan, and pierced cock, figured walnut half-stock (minor repair to fore-end), chequered grip, finely engraved blued iron mounts including scroll trigger-guard, case-hardened trigger-plate with pineapple finial, silver fore-end cap, original brass-mounted ramrod, and much original finish: in original fitted mahogany case lined in plum velvet, with accessories, the lid with illustrated trade label for circa 1810-1830, the exterior with circular escutcheon, London proof marks
31in. (78.7cm.) barrel

Literature

W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, British Gunmakers Their Trade Cards Cases and Equipment 1780-1860, plates 54 (label only), 328

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

William Andrew Beckwith was apprenticed to Wattel Clark on 29 December 1785, and was free of the Gunmakers' company in June 1801. He was at 58 Skinner Street, Snow Hill from 1802 to 1841
Sold with a letter of 1952 from T.E. Thompson of Clapham, via Lancaster, offering the gun for sale, describing the completeness and originality of the set, and stating: 'All has been in family possession since new.'

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