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EX. W. KEITH NEAL: EDWARD NEWTON, GRANTHAM
A FINE 16-BORE FLINTLOCK SINGLE-BARRELLED SPORTING-GUN, no visible serial number,
circa 1755, with two-stage hardened steel slightly swamped 42in. barrel retaining the majority of its original blued finish, carved and moulded band at the intersection, applied white metal fore-sight, shallow narrow sighting groove to the engraved top-tang, brass-lined touch-hole, the octagonal breech signed 'E. NEWTON GRANTHAM' within a border engraved panel and struck with Newton's own barrel marks, border engraved flat bevelled lock signed in a ribbon below the rainproof pan and with engraved stepped tail (mainspring expertly replaced), figured walnut handrail full stock (possibly originally with take-down fore-end or expertly restored back from half-stock), carved in relief around the top-tang, engraved iron mounts including solid side-plate with bevel edges, the top-spur of heel-plate engraved with a martial trophy, pierced and chiselled rococo escutcheon, three engraved iron ramrod-pipes with rolled ends and later horn-tipped ramrod, the left side of the butt with an old gummed paper label inscribed 'This gun was (made for) the Duke of Kingston, the barrel of peculiar composition to prevent Rust....' (near illegible) and complete with its W. Keith Neal collection medallion numbered 'G297'
Provenance: Previously sold Christies, The W. Keith Neal Collection, Lot 57, 25-10-2001
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Estimate £1,200-1,600