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A 12-bore boxlock non-ejector wild-fowling gun by Stanley Duncan, no. 83768

18 May 2017, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £625 inc. premium

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A 12-bore boxlock non-ejector wild-fowling gun by Stanley Duncan, no. 83768

The treble-grip action-body with the maker's name in a scrolling banner and border-scroll engraving, the figured stock with semi-pistolgrip and ebonite butt-plate, the barrels engraved 3" Case with game-rib engraved Stanley Duncan & Sons, Gunmakers, 62 Anlaby Road, Hull
Weight 8lb., 14½in. pull (14⅛in. stock) 32in. barrels, approx. ¼ & ⅝ choke, 3in. chambers, Birmingham nitro reproof

Footnotes

Duncan & Co. are recorded at Anlaby Street between 1936 and 1971

Stanley Duncan (1887 - 1954) was a gunmaker, wildfowler and naturalist who in 1908 founded the Wildfowlers Association of Great Britain and Ireland that would later become The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). Duncan acted as company secretary a position he held until 1946 and the first President was Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, a notable Edwardian shot and author of several books on shooting.

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