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Lot 181S2

A 16-bore sidelock hammer gun by S. Grant, no. 4952

1 December 2009, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £3,600 inc. premium

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A 16-bore sidelock hammer gun by S. Grant, no. 4952

The top-rib and trigger-guard tang engraved '2', sidelever, rebounding sidelocks with dolphin hammers, foliate-scroll engraving, traces of hardening-colour, well-figured stock with gold escutcheon, engraved with a Marquess' coronet over three entwined 'B's, and plastic extension, the damascus barrels (loose on action and pitted) with game-rib engraved Stephen Grant, 67A St. James's Street, London
Weight 6lb. 11¾oz., 14¼in. pull (13½in. stock), 31in. barrels, both approx. 3/8 choke, 2½in. chambers, London Black Powder proof (right bore-diameter marginal)

Footnotes

The makers have kindly confirmed that the gun was completed in 1881 as the No. 2 gun of a pair made for John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough. The crest is that of the Marquess of Blandford, and suggests that the pair were a gift to his son, later the 8th Duke of Marlborough.

George Charles Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough (1844-1892)

The son of a prominent Conservative politician and elder brother of Lord Randolph Churchill, he was educated at Eton, before taking a commission in the Royal Horse Guards, attaining the rank of Lieutenant in 1863. His first marriage, to Lady Albertha Hamilton in 1869, produced four children. After their divorce in 1883, he later remarried to Lilian Price, the widow of a New York real-estate millionaire. He died at Blenheim Palace, aged 48

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