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A Very Rare 11-Bore Sporting Gun With Forsyth Patent Roller Primer By R. Fenton, London, No. 1951, Circa 1819
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £8,187.50 inc. premium
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A Very Rare 11-Bore Sporting Gun With Forsyth Patent Roller Primer
By R. Fenton, London, No. 1951, Circa 1819
By R. Fenton, London, No. 1951, Circa 1819
Rebuilt from flintlock, with rebrowned three-stage barrel with turned and chiselled foliate girdle, octagonal breech becoming polygonal and signed in elaborate gold gothic script along the top flat, gold fore-sight centred on four gold-inlaid arrows, case-hardened breech with engraved gold band and line, the former engraved with three fleur-de-lys, border engraved case-hardened tang decorated with oak foliage, case-hardened flat bevelled lock engraved 'Forsyth & Co., Patent' and decorated with foliate scrollwork, stepped tail en suite and with a gamebird in a landscape, foliate engraved serial numbered roller primer stamped 'F. Patent', figured half-stock (minor old bruising and split in front of the lock) with cheek-piece, chequered grip and silver fore-end cap, border engraved blued steel mounts comprising butt-plate (some light pitting) decorated with foliage and a pointer in a landscape, scroll trigger-guard decorated with foliage and with a heron in a landscape on the bow, a serpent in its beak, case-hardened trigger-plate with pineapple final, vacant silver escutcheon and barrel-bolt escutcheons, original steel-tipped ramrod, and much original finish
82 cm. barrel
82 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Provenance
Wilfrid Ward Collection, probably acquired from W. Keith Neal
Christie's London, The Wilfrid Ward Collection of Antique Firearms, 27 October 1993, lot 24
Literature
W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, Forsyth & Co.: Patent Gunmakers, 1969, p. 46
D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers, Forsyth & Co.: Patent Gunmakers 1806-1852, 1995, p. 41







