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JOSEPH SMYTHE
A 12-BORE BOXLOCK NON-EJECTOR GUN
30-inch damascus barrels with 2 1/2-inch chambers, about 1/4 and full choke borings, top extension, the frame and top lever with fine scroll engraving and retaining traces of original hardening colour, 15-inch figured stock with ribbed butt plate, 6lb. 6oz., nitro re-proof, bores pitted
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Joseph Smythe was probably best remembered as a gunmaker who accidentally destroyed much of Darlington town centre with an appalling gunpowder explosion in 1894. |
Sold for £200
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| Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns |
| The Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland |
| 29 August 2016 |
| Commission is 25% ex. VAT. Artist's Resale Right may apply |
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