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A Highly Unusual 12-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Sporting GunBy Edward Newton, Grantham, London Silver Hallmarks For 1743
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By Edward Newton, Grantham, London Silver Hallmarks For 1743
By Edward Newton, Grantham, London Silver Hallmarks For 1743
107 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Provenance:
Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton (1723-1769), Eglinton Castle, Irvine, Ayrshire
Eglinton Castle sale, Dowell's of Edinburgh, 1-5 December 1925, lot 903
W. Keith Neal Collection (G331) sold in these Rooms 10 November, 2005, lot 19
Literature:
W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, 1975, p. 108, plates 378-380
Idem, Messrs Griffin & Tow and W. Bailes, 1989, p. 18
Fred Buller, The Domesday Book of Mammoth Pike, 1979, p. 181 (side-plate illustrated). A large pike of 42½ lb. and measuring 47½ in. long (illustrated on p. 180) is believed to have been shot in Dene Park lake by an estate keeper and might have been the model for the side-plate on the present gun
The 10th Earl of Eglinton, friend and benefactor of James Boswell, the biographer, was murdered by Mungo Campbell, whom he found trespassing on his land. Campbell was convicted of murder but cheated the hangman by committing suicide in Edinburgh Castle
The design of the side-plate of this gun appears to be unique
For Newton's barrel marks, found on a gun made by him for Evelyn Pierrepont (1711-1773), 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull (sold from the W. Keith Neal Collection at Christie's, King Street, 25 October 2001, lot 57), see Neal & Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, plate 228
For information on Newton (1692?-1764), who appears to have trained both Robert Wogdon and John Twigg, see Tom Wimsey, 'Newton of Grantham', J.A.A.S., vol. XVI, no. 5 (September 2000), pp. 281-289








