Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

A Cased 14-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun image 1
A Cased 14-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun image 2
Lot 495Y

A Cased 14-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Jas. Wilkinson, Gun Maker To His Majesty, London, No. 657, Circa 1810

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £3,187.50 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Arms and Armour specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

A Cased 14-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
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

Footnotes

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

Additional information

Bid now on these items

A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century

The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons

A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century

A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later

FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.

A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.

THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.