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HENRY ATKIN
A PAIR OF 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS, NOS. 2346/7, BUILT FOR LORD IVOR SPENCER-CHURCHILL
28-inch replacement chopper-lump barrels by the maker, with 2 3/4-inch chambers about 1/4 and 1/2 choke borings, the frames, locks and gold numbered top levers with fine bouquet and scroll engraving and retaining some original hardening colour, 15 1/2-inch highly figured replacement stocks, 6lb. 10oz., nitro proof, in their maker's brassbound oak and leather case
The maker confirms that the guns were built for Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill in 1919 for his 21st birthday and that the guns were re-barelled by themselves in 1970. The guns have been little used since.
Lord Ivor Charles Spencer-Churchill (1898-1956) was the younger son of the 9th Duke of Marlborough. His first wife, the former Consuelo Vanderbilt, was an American railroad heiress and his elder brother John, was the 10th Duke of Marlborough. Spencer-Churchill was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford before joining the Royal Army Service Corps in 1917 and gaining the rank of Lieutenant. He fought in the First World War and was decorated with the French Legion of Honour. He married Elizabeth Cunningham on November 15 1947 and had a son, Robert William Charles (born 1954). He developed an inoperable brain tumour and died in 1956. He is buried beside his cousin, Sir Winston Churchill, and close to his mother at St Martin's Church, Bladon, Woodstock, Oxfordshire.
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| Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns |
| Sotheby's, New Bond Street |
| 20 April 2011 |
| Commission is 25% ex. VAT. Artist's Resale Right may apply |
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