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Lot 230*

A 14-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Beckwith Of London, Early 19th Century

11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£500 - £650

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A 14-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Beckwith Of London, Early 19th Century

With shortened re-browned twist barrel (repaired and reinforced with a knurled band at the mid-section during the gun's working life), octagonal breech becoming polygonal, patent breech with 'H. Nock, London' gold-lined maker's oval and gold line, one flat beneath stamped 'HN Patent', foliate engraved tang, border engraved flat bevelled lock (cock replaced) signed in gothic script and decorated with foliage on the stepped tail, rainproof pan and roller, figured half-stock (minor bruising, fore-end chipped on one side) with chequered grip, butt with cheek-piece, steel mounts (some wear and light pitting) engraved en suite and comprising butt-plate and D-shaped trigger-guard with scrolled tang, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, silver fore-end cap and barrel-bolt escutcheons, and wooden ramrod, London proof mark and Henry Nock's barrelsmith's mark
77.5 cm. barrel

Footnotes

William Andrew Beckwith was apprenticed to Wattell Clark in 1785. He was elected Master of the Gunmakers' Company in 1805, 1814, 1825 and 1840. The business was carried on by his widow Elizabeth following his death in 1841

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