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Lot 495Y
A Cased 14-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun By Jas. Wilkinson, Gun Maker To His Majesty, London, No. 657, Circa 1810
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Including property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections
27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,187.50 inc. premium
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By Jas. Wilkinson, Gun Maker To His Majesty, London, No. 657, Circa 1810
By Jas. Wilkinson, Gun Maker To His Majesty, London, No. 657, Circa 1810
With browned twist two-stage sighted barrel turned at the girdle, octagonal breech becoming polygonal and engraved 'Gun Maker To His Majesty', octagonal serial numbered breech plug with gold-lined maker's oval, gold line and platinum-lined touch-hole, tang engraved with foliage behind a border of guilloche, signed border engraved flat bevelled lock decorated with game birds and foliage at the stepped tail and on the ring-neck cock, with a starburst behind the rainproof pan, and with roller, figured half-stock with chequered grip, border engraved blued steel mounts comprising butt-plate (some loss of finish) decorated with a hare in a landscape on the heel tang, D-shaped trigger-guard with a landscape scene of a gun dog with a fallen game bird in its mouth on the border engraved bow, trigger-plate with large pineapple finial, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons and fore-end cap, brass-mounted ramrod, and some original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case (some moth damage) with accessories including brass-mounted Sykes patent powder-flask, the body with bevelled edge, and cap over the nozzle also forming a powder-measure, shot-belt (damaged), and turnscrew with figured grip, the interior of the lid (baize incomplete along the line of an old split) with maker's trade label, the exterior with circular vacant brass escutcheon, London proof marks
76.8 cm. barrel
76.8 cm. barrel
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Provenance
Lawrences, Crewkerne, Militaria, Coins and Medals, 21 April 2009, lot 7
James 1 Wilkinson was Henry Nock's foreman. He was appointed Gunmaker-in-Ordinary to George III in 1805 and is recorded at 17 Ludgate Hill, London between 1806 and 1817. He died in 1848 at the age of ninety








