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JOHN DICKSON & SON
A PAIR OF 12-BORE 1887 PATENT ROUND-ACTION TRIGGERPLATE ACTION EJECTORS, serial no. 5120 / 21,
for 1899, 29in. nitro damascus barrels, ribs engraved '1' and '2' with 'JOHN DICKSON & SON. 63, PRINCES STREET, EDINBURGH.', 2 1/2in. chambers, bored approx. imp. cyl. and 1/4 choke, No.1 right wall at 19, Dickson patent treble-grip round actions, patent use numbers 756 and 757, toplevers engraved '1' and '2', automatic safeties with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' details, the actions and furniture with bold acanthus scroll engraving on a matted background, the sides engraved JOHN DICKSON & SON PATENT' in scrolling banners, brushed and blued finish, 14 3/4in. figured stocks (worn), heels with gold escutcheons engraved with the initials 'S.B.H.' under an oak tree surrounded by a belt engraved 'DAT GLORIA VIRES', the Hog clan crest and motto, fore-ends silver-inlet '1' and '2', weight 6lb. 9oz., in their makers brass-cornered oak and leather double guncase, lid exterior marked 'S.B. HOG. NEWLISTON. KIRKLISTON N.B.'
Provenance: The vendor has kindly provided us with the following information:
"Steuart Bayley Hog of Newliston and Kellie was educated at Cargilfield, Edinburgh, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1886. He was admitted an advocate to the Scottish Bar in 1888, and subsequently became a Deputy Lieutenant of West Lothian and a Justice of the Peace. He was a member of the Linlithgow Licencing Committee and of the Licencing Appeal Court. Steuart was moreover, a member of Kirkliston Parish Council from 1904, and previous to 1929 a Commissioner of Supply for West Lothian. During World War I he was chairman of the Linlithgowshire Tribunal and County Commandant of the Territorial Force. In 1935 he was made Vice-Lieutenant of West Lothian. Steuart was also an Honorary Sherriff, and a member of the Royal Company of Archers (King's Bodyguard for Scotland), in the uniform of which his portrait was painted by Ernest Stephen Lumsden (1883 - 1948)
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Estimate £8,000-12,000
S2 - Sold as a Section 2 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act