Lot 199
199
A RARE FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE
THE BLAIR CHARITABLE TRUST, REMOVED FROM BLAIR CASTLE, BLAIR ATHOLL, SCOTLAND
A RARE FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE

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

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A RARE FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE
BY P. GANDON, LONDON, MID-18TH CENTURY
With 38 ¾ in. (98.5) cm. slender etched twist continental European barrel of similar form to the last, rifled with twelve grooves, and inlaid with a silver crown and monogram towards the stepped breech, silver spider fore-sight, scroll engraved grooved tang, signed flat bevelled border engraved lock with stepped tail, walnut full stock, brass mounts including pierced side-plate and trigger-guard with acorn finial, and horn-tipped ramrod
54 ¾ in. (139 cm.) overall

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Lot Essay

Three receipted accounts from Philip Gandon are retained in the archives at Blair Castle, two from 1754 and one from 1755. Whilst there is clear reference to a silver-mounted gun with "Water Barrel" ordered on 30 July 1753 (probably lot 198), there is no specific mention of a brass-mounted gun with a similar "Water Barrel", albeit with straight groove rifling. There are orders for a total of 12 "brass mounted fowling pieces" noted in the receipted accounts, six being ordered at the same time as the sliver-mounted gun and a further half dozen engraved with crests ordered in 1755. Please see W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, London, 1975, p. 85 and pls. 232-4.

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