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JOHN DICKSON AND SON
A PAIR OF 12-BORE ASSISTED OPENING ROUND ACTION EJECTOR GUNS, NOS. 7273/4
27-inch Vickers steel chopper-lump barrels with 2 1/2-inch chambers, about 1/2 and full choke borings, the No.2 gun with an additional pair of 27-inch Vickers steel barrels with 2 1/2-inch chambers, about 1/2 choke borings, top extensions, the rounded frames, trigger plates and gold numbered top levers with fine bouquet and scroll engraving, the action bases signed in gold, 14 1/2-inch well figured stocks including 1/4-inch ebonite butt plates, the gold ovals engraved "ADC Scots Guards", 6lb, nitro proof, bores marked and barrel wall thickness below the recommended minimum, in their maker's brassbound leather case, including compartment for the additional barrels
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The maker confirms that the guns were built in 1932 for Lt Col Archibald Douglas Crabbe. |
Sold for £7000
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| Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns |
| Gleneagles, Scotland |
| 28 August 2017 |
| Commission is 25% ex. VAT. Artist's Resale Right may apply |
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