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Lot 234

A Rare Cased 13-Bore Percussion D.B. Sporting Gun
By Thomas Boss, 73 St. James's Street, London, No. 778 For 1847

24 May 2023, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £4,480 inc. premium

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A Rare Cased 13-Bore Percussion D.B. Sporting Gun
By Thomas Boss, 73 St. James's Street, London, No. 778 For 1847

With rebrowned damascus twist sighted barrels signed in full along the twist rib, case-hardened breeches each with pierced platinum plug, short platinum line and engraved with a starburst between, case-hardened tang engraved with symmetrical scrolling foliage, signed border engraved case-hardened flat locks each decorated with foliate scrollwork and stamped 'TB' for Thomas Brazier on the inside, dolphin hammers decorated en suite, figured half-stock with chequered grip and fore-end, border engraved steel mounts comprising butt-plate decorated with two black cock in a landscape and scrolling foliage along the blued heel tang, blued serial numbered trigger-guard decorated with foliage en suite and with a pointer in a landscape within a border of repeated flowering foliage on the bow, case-hardened trigger-plate with foliate engraved pointed finial of pineapple form, rear ramrod-pipe en suite, silver escutcheon engraved with owner's crest, sling mounts, brass-mounted serial numbered ramrod, and retaining some original finish: in original lined and fitted brass-mounted oak case with accessories including Brazier's Improved planished tin powder-flask engraved with owner's initials, shot-flask, T-shaped combination tool (surface rust), in its leather wallet with extra sidenail, mutton bone nipple-box and brush, and extra ramrod, the interior of the lid with later maker's trade label over the original, the exterior with circular brass escutcheon engraved with owner's crest above 'G.S. Elliot', and with remains of its outer leather travelling cover tooled 'G.S. Elliot', London proof marks and barrelsmith's marks of Christopher Aston
76 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Literature
Donald Dallas, Boss & Co. Builders Of Best Guns Only, 1995, pp. 44-45, colour pls. 6 and 7

The crest is probably that of Gilbert Stephen Elliot of the Elliot family of Minto, Co. Roxburgh, Scotland

Following the death of his father, William, to whom Thomas Boss (1790-1857) was apprenticed, the famous John Manton kept him on and later employed him as a journeyman. In 1816 he set up as a truss and gunmaker and carried out work for James Purdey as an outworker. He was at 73 St. James's Street between 1842 and 1859 and the business carries on to this day as Thomas Boss & Co. Ltd.

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