GUN SPRING 2018
The live portion of this session begins on Wednesday, March 21, 2018.
ANACHRONISTIC JOHN DICKSON 11 BORE PERCUSSION SHOTGUN BUILT IN 1889 FOR CHARLES GORDON, WITH MAHOGANY TWO TIERED CASE AND ACCESSORIES.DICKSONPERCUSSION SHOT GUN426511CASE(1889) 11 Bore. This heavy long barreled 11 bore was built by Dickson's some 30 years after the last percussion guns were being ordered by some diehards. The eccentric Charles Gordon however contracted a large number of them from many gun makers, but most were from Dickson's. Some were flintlocks, but most were percussion guns and rifles, and most had back action locks. Nearly all were in very fancy cases with lots of accessories. This gun has 32" skelp twist bbls engraved "John Dickson & Son 63 Princes Street. Edinburgh" on concave rib. Bottoms of bbls are stamped with SNs and London black powder proofs. Breech plugs have engraved platinum "blow-outs". Rosewood ramrod with brass tulip head and tail has steel worm under cap, and is held by two plain pipes on bbls. Breech irons have integral fences. Back action peninsula locks are fitted with round bodied serpentine hammers with tall spurs. Trigger plate has long ball finial. Trigger guard is charcoal blued, as is steel buttplate with long top spur. Locks and all other case hardened metal parts are engraved with near full coverage exceptionally well cut small scroll. Trigger guard has traditional open scroll with SN on tang. Very fine dark marbled and lightly figured European walnut straight grip stock is checkered at grip and forend, and measures 14-5/8". Stock attaches to bbls with captive side bolt through shaped and engraved steel escutcheons. Bore diameter: left -.760, right - .760. Drop at heel: 2-1/8", drop at comb: 1-1/2". Weight: 8 lbs. 12 oz. LOP: 14-5/8". Gun and bbls are housed in 2-tiered figured mahogany case harkening back to the 1830's before quartered oak was the norm. Case has inlet double ogee decorated brass corners with central D-ring brass handle, central medallion is engraved "H". Case is lined in green cloth and has maroon leather Dickson label in lid. Gun is housed in top lift out tray which also contains German silver Bartram leather bodied flask, case hardened oil bottle, and some Joyce percussion caps. Bottom compartment, with tray removed, reveals some other accessories including leather bodied shot pouch, matching flask, rosewood handled powder measure, brass capper by Allport, shot snake by Sykes, mainspring vice, ebony handled nipple and hammer nose jag, nipple cleaner by Hawksley, and 11 bore wad punch. CONDITION: Excellent, does show some use and some finish loss due to storage issues, with some scattered light flecking on bbls, light silvering on lock tails, and some flaking and flecking on charcoal blue of trigger guard and buttplate. There are scattered marks and a few deeper dings in orig finish of stock. Bores are excellent, bright and shiny throughout. Locks are crisp. Case is good, lightly refinished with one 14" crack in lid. Interior cloth renewed, and is excellent. Label has some rubs and cuts. Accessories are good to excellent. 53177-16 mgm157 (15,000-25,000)