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BY DOMIN.O XIMENES EN CADIZ, DATED 1814
Details
An 18-Bore Spanish Miquelet-Lock Sporting Gun
By Domin.o Ximenes En Cadiz, dated 1814
With earlier two-stage barrel retained by a spring-held engraved silver band, and with gold spider fore-sight and turned girdle, the breech section inlaid with interlaced strapwork in gold and the gold-inlaid signature 'Juan Santos En Madrid Año De 1738', and stamped with ten gold-lined decorative marks (some gold missing) and the two punzónes of the maker (Neue Støckel 986-7), gold-lined touch-hole, finely engraved grooved tang, finely engraved signed and dated lock with gold-lined pan, walnut half-stock inlaid with pierced and engraved silver panels, engraved iron mounts including scroll trigger-guard with pierced and engraved finials, engraved silver ramrod-pipe, and horn-tipped ramrod with worm (some light pitting on iron parts)
41¾in. (106.1cm.) barrel
By Domin.o Ximenes En Cadiz, dated 1814
With earlier two-stage barrel retained by a spring-held engraved silver band, and with gold spider fore-sight and turned girdle, the breech section inlaid with interlaced strapwork in gold and the gold-inlaid signature 'Juan Santos En Madrid Año De 1738', and stamped with ten gold-lined decorative marks (some gold missing) and the two punzónes of the maker (Neue Støckel 986-7), gold-lined touch-hole, finely engraved grooved tang, finely engraved signed and dated lock with gold-lined pan, walnut half-stock inlaid with pierced and engraved silver panels, engraved iron mounts including scroll trigger-guard with pierced and engraved finials, engraved silver ramrod-pipe, and horn-tipped ramrod with worm (some light pitting on iron parts)
41¾in. (106.1cm.) barrel
Provenance
J.N. George, author of English Pistols and Revolvers (1938) and English Guns and Rifles (1947), by bequest to Keith Neal, who was a joint executor of the George estate. George's two books (the second of which was published posthumously) are recognised as the first major systematic treatment of English firearms. He was killed by an enemy sniper while on active service in the Western Desert, and buried in the War Cemetery at El Alamein
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.