Lot 183^S2

A 12-bore bar-in-wood sidelock hammer gun by T. Horsley & Son, no. 2710
In its brass-mounted oak and leather case

Sporting Guns

1 December 2009, 11:00 GMT

London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £2,880 inc. premium

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A 12-bore bar-in-wood sidelock hammer gun by T. Horsley & Son, no. 2710

The toplever, rib, and forend-lever engraved with '3', the action incorporating T. Horsley pull-back toplever patent no. 2410 of 1st October 1863 and further engraved with a capital 'A' under a Marquess' coronet, rebounding sidelocks with dolphin hammers, geometric engraving, the trigger-guard engraved en-suite and overlaid with a rose, well-figured stock with steel butt-plate numbered '3', lever-latch forend, the rebrowned damascus barrels (possibly shortened) with game-rib engraved Thomas Horsley & Son, Maker, York
Weight 6lb. 11½oz., 14½in. pull (14¼in. stock), 28¼in. barrels, approx. ¼ & I.C. choke, 2½in. chambers, London nitro reproof
In its brass-mounted oak and leather case

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Accompanied by a letter from the makers dated 29th March 1954, confirming that the gun was completed as one of a trio in 1882, and that it was originally made for the Marquess of Abergavenny

William Nevill, 1st Marquess and 5th Earl of Abergavenny, KG MVO (1826-1915)
The son of the 4th Earl of Abergavenny, he was educated at Eton, and served with the 2nd Life Guards, attaining the rank of Lieutenant in 1849, later honorary Colonel of the West Kent Yeomanry and the Sussex Yeomanry. In 1876 he was created 1st Marquess of Abergavenny and 1st Earl of Lewes, was created a Knight of the Garter in 1886, and served as Lord Lieutenant of Sussex from 1892 to 1905. He married Caroline Johnston, the granddaughter of the then Archbishop of York, in 1848, with whom he had ten children. He died at Eridge Castle in Sussex, the family seat, and was buried there

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A 12-bore bar-in-wood sidelock hammer gun by T. Horsley & Son, no. 2710
In its brass-mounted oak and leather case