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EX W. KEITH NEAL: JOHN TWIGG, LONDON
A FINE 16-BORE FLINTLOCK SINGLE-BARRELLED SILVER-MOUNTED DUCK-GUN, no visible serial number,
London silver hallmarks for 1773, with rebrowned 45 1/2in. two-stage twist barrel, moulded and carved band at the intersection, white metal fore-sight on a starburst ground, the octagonal breech with gold tombstone shaped maker's poincon with 'TWIGG, LONDON' and a star and a crown in relief, gold-lined touch-hole, border and florally engraved top-tang, flat lock with moulded bevel border and pointed stepped tail, script signature 'TWIGG' below the gold-lined pan, swan-neck cock and roller frizzen, figured walnut half-stock (reduced from full, tip renewed) carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel tang, finely engraved shaped silver mounts including solid side-plate, the trigger-guard with acorn finial, large cast and chased rococo escutcheon to wrist and original horn-tipped wooden ramrod with worm end, London proof marks, silver maker's mark for John King and complete with its W. Keith Neal collection medallion number 'G337'.
Provenance: Previously sold Christies 'The W. Keith Neal Collection', Lot 66, 25-10-2001
A lock of near identical form is shown on plates 185 & 186 of W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back's publication 'Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790' where the signature is described as in 'the second style'.
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Estimate £1,200-1,600