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Sporting Guns Hit The Target At Bonhams Sale In London
http://www.bonhams.com/guns
Bonhams sale of Sporting Guns yesterday (3.12.08) hit the mark with a strong total
of 70 per cent sold – and the sale highlight, a pigeon gun, making no less
than £30,000.
Patrick Hawes, Head of Bonhams Sporting Gun Department, comments: “Given
that we are experiencing an unprecedented economic downturn, our sale yesterday
was most encouraging. It seems to indicate that shooting enthusiasts will continue
to invest in their passion for fine guns.”
Top lot in the sale (lot 264) was a fine 12-bore over-and-under sidelock ejector
pigeon gun by J. Woodward in a J. Woodward leather case with canvas cover and
some accessories, estimated to sell for £25,000 to £30,000 made the
higher figure after some keen bidding.
The sale showed a trend of particularly strong prices achieved for the best English
guns which outperformed foreign makes. Traditional names like Holland and Holland,
Purdey were well to the fore.
The second highest price paid at the sale was for lot 137 a heavy calibre double
barrelled .500 (3inch) rifle made for dangerous game like elephant and buffalo.
This gun made in 1926 fetched £19,200 against an expected pre-sale estimate
of £7,000 to £10,000. Patrick Hawes said: “This item was brought
to us as a result of our selling the guns of Jim Sutherland, one of the greatest
big game hunters who ever lived. His book: `The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter’
recalls the heyday of the African Safari and big game hunting.”
The tenth highest item in the sale was a Siberian tiger skin rug with a mount
head by E. Gerrard which was estimated to sell for £3,000 to £4,000
but made £7,440.
Two other notable items were glass targets and a revolver which made unusually
good prices. Lot 2 consisted of three rare blue Bogardus glass ball-targets estimated
to sell for £400-500 and which made £1,680.
Lot 97 A fine cased .450 Webley revolver, sold by Manton & Co., Gunmakers,
London & Calcutta with an almost full gold plated finish with an ivory mounted
cleaning rod and gold plated oil bottle by T.F. Wood &Son £4,320.
For more information please contact Julian Roup at Bonhams Press Office on 0207
468 8259 or email julian.roup@bonhams.com or press@bonhams.com
NOTES FOR EDITORS
Bonhams, founded in 1793, is one of the world's oldest and largest auctioneers
of fine art and antiques. The present company was formed by the merger in November
2001 of Bonhams & Brooks and Phillips Son and Neale UK. In August 2002, the
company acquired Butterfields, the principal firm of auctioneers on the West Coast
of America and in August 2003, Goodmans, a leading Australian fine art and antiques
auctioneer with salerooms in Sydney, joined the Bonhams Group of Companies. Today,
Bonhams offers more sales than any of its rivals, through two major salerooms
in London: New Bond Street, and Knightsbridge, and a further seven throughout
the UK. Sales are also held in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Boston
in the USA; and Switzerland, France, Monaco, Australia, Hong Kong and Dubai. Bonhams
has a worldwide network of offices and regional representatives in 25 countries
offering sales advice and valuation services in 57 specialist areas. For a full
listing of upcoming sales, plus details of Bonhams specialist departments, go
to www.bonhams.com. (January 2008)
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