BY P. GANDON, LONDON, MID-18TH CENTURY

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A FINE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE
BY P. GANDON, LONDON, MID-18TH CENTURY
With slender 38 ¼ in. (97 cm.) swamped etched twist barrel with silver spider fore-sight and inlaid with a silver crown and monogram towards the stepped breech, finely scroll engraved grooved tang, rounded lock engraved with a spray of foliage and signed on a ribbon, figured walnut full stock carved in low relief with a shell behind the barrel tang, silver mounts including pierced side-plate depicting a hunter at rest with his hound surrounded by hanging dead game, butt-plate with later scroll engraving on the tang, shaped silver martial trophy escutcheon engraved with the Murray family arms, and original whalebone ramrod
53 ¾ in. (136.5 cm.) overall

Literature

W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, London, 1975, pl. 232.

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Lot Essay

Neal & Back note the existence of three receipted accounts from Philip Gandon retained in the archives at Blair Castle. One of these dated 2 March 1754 lists a number of orders and transactions including one dated to 30 July 1753 "For stocking & made new silver furniture a Waterpan Lock false britch(?) & Bolts to a Water Barrel" at a cost of £8. 8. 0. It is possible that this refers to the present lot.

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