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A Cased 18-Bore D.B. Percussion Sporting Gun Relating To The Ganton Poaching AffrayBy W. Smith, Birmingham, Mid-19th Century
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A Cased 18-Bore D.B. Percussion Sporting Gun Relating To The Ganton Poaching Affray
By W. Smith, Birmingham, Mid-19th Century
By W. Smith, Birmingham, Mid-19th Century
76 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Offered with a typewritten note stating that the gun was the property of Tommy Gambles, Gamekeeper on the Ganton Estate, North Yorkshire. On the night of 23 November 1904 Thomas Atkinson, Thomas Gambles, George Wellburn and Thomas Morrison, all keepers on the Ganton Estate, were shot at by poachers William and Charles Hovington and Thomas Dobson, laborers from Scarborough. There then followed an altercation resulting in Atkinson being mortally wounded and Gambles being shot in the groin and abdoman. The keepers returned fire and the Hovingtons, father and son, were shot in the legs. Following a desperate fight during which 'Keeper Wellburn used an ash plant to effect' the poachers made their escape only to be arrested by the police on their return to Scarborough
A postcard and facsimile copies of images of the characters involved, and a facsimile of a newspaper article dated 14 January 1905 giving details of the affray are included with the lot




