Product Details
FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF CHARLES GORDON
JOHN DICKSON & SON, EDINBURGH
A FINE CASED 12-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING GUN, serial no. 3886,
for 1884, with 30 1/4in. fine damascus browned barrels, the top-rib engraved 'JOHN DICKSON & SON, 63 PRINCES STREET, EDINBURGH', bead fore-sight, colour-hardened breech-block with engraved bands and scroll engraving to the rib-end, fully scroll engraved elongated top-tang with ball terminal, border and scroll engraved colour-hardened back-action locks with Dickson patent hammers with detachable noses (noses renewed by Dicksons), walnut chequered half-stock, iron heel-plate with scroll engraved spur, scroll engraved trigger-guard tang with border and scroll engraved bow, finial mirroring the top-tang, scroll engraved ramrod throat and brass-mounted ebony ramrod COMPLETE WITH its original two-tiered oak case in fine condition, compartmented and lined in green baize with accommodation for another gun of similar style but larger gauge and containing a number of accessories including three flasks, a silver-plated snail capper and shot chargers, the lid with illustrated parchment 'JOHN DICKSON' label.
Provenance: This gun was ordered by the famous Scottish eccentric Charles Gordon who in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ordered many muzzle-loading firearms, his favoured maker being John Dickson & Son of Edinburgh. Dickson's completed their last firearm for Gordon, a percussion rifle, in February 1904. Like so many of the firearms ordered by Gordon, this gun remains in excellent condition.
Detailed provenance on Gordon may be found in this catalogue's 'In the Gunroom'.
Other Notes: Mr Donald Dallas, author, has kindly confirmed that the gun was delivered on the 1st September 1884 paired together with a 10-bore gun of similar specification. Both guns were subsequently sold in the auction of Charles Gordon's property in 1908 for 16 shillings (80 pence!)
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Estimate £4,000-6,000