A FINE CASED 12-BORE SCOTTISH D.B. PIN-FIRE SHOTGUN BY JOHN DICKSON & SON, 63 PRINCES STREET,

A FINE CASED 12-BORE SCOTTISH D.B. PIN-FIRE SHOTGUN BY JOHN DICKSON & SON, 63 PRINCES STREET, EDINBURGH, LONDON BLACK POWDER PROOF MARKS, NO. 2313 FOR 1862 with browned barrels of fine damascus twist pattern each engraved at the rear with a band of foliage and a sunburst, signed rib numbered `1` and engraved with scrollwork at the rear, finely engraved case-hardened tang, action, underlever, trigger-guard, and signed locks all decorated with scrollwork, scroll-engraved numbered blued trigger-plate, highly figured varnished walnut butt, chequered grip and bar-in-wood fore-end (the latter bruised), blued-iron butt-plate numbered `1` and engraved on the tang with black game and scrollwork, silver escutcheon engraved with the owner`s crest and motto, and nearly all of its original finish: in lined and fitted two-tier leather case with numerous accessories, mainly by Hawksley, the lower tier with provision for cartridges, the lid with stamped and gilt inscription `Lieut. Colonel Trotter/ No.1`. 76.2cm; 30in barrels

Provenance W.Keith Neal, sold Christie`s King Street, 25th October 2001, lot 22

Literature Richard Akehurst, Game Guns and Rifles, p. 53 plates 33-35

Completed 3rd December 1862 for John Fletcher of Saltoun.

The crest and motto is that of Trotter.