Product Details
MADE FOR HRH PRINCE ALFRED
WESTLEY RICHARDS
A CASED HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT 28-BORE PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN FOR A BOY, serial no. 7183,
with round damascus 20in. barrel, bead fore-sight, carved quarter sighting rib at breech signed 'WESTLEY RICHARDS 170 NEW BOND ST. LONDON', twin platinum lines and an engraved band at breech, carved snail with platinum vented plug, borderline and scroll engraved top-tang, borderline and scroll engraved bar-action lock signed WESTLEY RICHARDS', scroll engraved dolphin headed hammer, figured walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist, iron furniture, clipped corner silver escutcheon behind top-tang engraved with an English coronet, oval escutcheons to the barrel key, ivory fore-end tip and ivory tipped ebony ramrod, complete with its maker's brass bound oak storage-case with parchment trade-label inside lid, the case lined and compartmented in red velvet with matching lidded compartments
Provenance: Schloss Langenburg Armoury sale, Thomas Del Mar, December 3rd 2014
Other Notes: This cased percussion sporting gun was made for Prince Alfred as a small boy in about 1850 - by Westley Richards of London, Gunmaker to H.R.H. Prince Albert and therefore possibly gifted to him. From there it was passed on by descent from Alfred to Princess Alexandra at Schloss Langenburg.
H.R.H. The Prince Alfred was born on 6th April 1844, the second son and fourth child of H.M. Queen Victoria and H.R.H. The Prince Albert. Prince Alfred Ernst Albert was second in line to the throne, and as such from 1866 he carried the title The Duke of Edinburgh. The gun descended from him to his third daughter, H.R.H. The Princess Alexandra (1878-1942), the wife of Ernst II, Prince zu Hohenlohe- Langenburg where it remained in the castle armoury until auctioned to raise funds in 2014. The gun and its case each bear an escutcheon engraved with a coronet of the British Blood Royal. The proportions of the gun are in keeping with those of a young boy (33 1/4in. overall).
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Estimate £10,000-15,000
(USD 12,957-19,435)
(EUR 11,096-16,644)
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