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Lot 316

A Cased 18-Bore D.B. Percussion Sporting Gun Relating To The Ganton Poaching Affray
By W. Smith, Birmingham, Mid-19th Century

27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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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

With rebrowned twist damascus sighted barrels engraved 'Birmingham' in gothic script along the rib, breeches engraved with foliage between, foliate scroll engraved tang, signed border engraved lock, hammers (one spur repaired) and mounts, the last comprising butt-plate and trigger-guard, the latter with partly chequered scrolled spur, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, figured half-stock (fore-end with repairs) with chequered grip, vacant silver escutcheon, and original brass-mounted ramrod (some refinishing): in a lined leather case (some repairs) with brass escutcheon engraved 'F. Mason, Hull', Birmingham proof marks (a lot)
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

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