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BOSS & CO.
A FINE AND RARE 16-BORE SELECTIVE SINGLE TRIGGER SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN, NO. 8625
27-inch chopper-lump barrels with 2 1/2-inch chambers, about 1/4 and 1/2 choke borings, the frame, locks and left-handed top lever with fine bouquet and scroll engraving and retaining much original hardening colour, the right lock with single trigger selector lever, rolled edge trigger guard, gold lined cocking indicators, 15-inch well figured stock including 2 1/4-inch extension, 6lb. 5oz., nitro proof, in its maker's lightweight leather case
The makers kindly confirm that the gun was built for General The Lord St. Levan, CB in 1938. The records confirm the order for a single trigger 16-bore with 27-inch barrels to have a left hand lever. The original stock length, 13 9/16-inch with a sponge rubber recoil pad.
2nd Lord St. Levan
John Townshend St. Aubyn, 2nd Baron St. Levan was born in 1857. Educated at Eton and Cambridge, he joined the Grenadier Guards in 1878. He served in the Sudan in 1884 and at the Nile in 1885. In 1916 he re-joined the Army and was promted to Brigadier General in charge of the Reserve Western Territorial Divison. He was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall. Other appointments included Honorary Colonel of the Devon & Cornwall Heavy Brigade and Cornwall Royal Garrison Artillery. He was also military secretary to the Governor General of Canada form 1892-94. He died in 1940, only two years after this gun was built. |
Sold for £17500
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| Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns |
| Olympia, West London |
| 15 April 2008 |
| Commission is 25% ex. VAT. Artist's Resale Right may apply |
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