拍品專文
W.G. Renwick (1886-1971), of Tucson, Arizona, acquired his interest in antique firearms as a boy, and formed most of his collection between the two World Wars. He made many trips to Europe, and purchased some of his finest pieces from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. At the time of his death his collection numbered over 1,500 items, nearly all of which were sold in a series of auctions in London and Los Angeles between 1972 and 1975, establishing new levels of value for antique firearms, and including the gun of c.1620 made by Pierre le Bourgeois of Lisieux for King Louis XIII of France, acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. no. 1972. 223) in November 1972 for £125,000, a record at auction for arms and armour which was not beaten until 1981