26th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
352
A VERY RARE 13 BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING CARBINE, BY WILLIAM NEWTON OF GRANTHAM, CIRCA 1770
AND ANOTHER OF 14 BORE BY THE SAME MAKER, LONDON SILVER HALLMARKS FOR 1767, MAKER'S MARK OF JOSEPH KEAYS
the first with two-stage barrel with silver fore-sight and turned girdle, octagonal breech signed along the top flat (signature refreshed), William Newton's barrelsmith's marks and proof marks, gold-lined touch-hole, grooved border engraved tang decorated with foliage, signed flat bevelled lock with safety-catch, figured stock with take-down fore-end (partly replaced at the muzzle, some old bruising), skeleton butt (repaired) carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, border engraved steel mounts comprising shaped side-plate decorated with a trophy, vacant escutcheon on a pedestal, a shell above, trigger-guard with early form of acorn finial, turned ramrod-pipes, sling mount and later wooden ramrod (old wear and pitting); the second of similar form and condition (cock retaining screw replaced, steel refaced, fore-end partly replaced at the muzzle including dark horn cap, restocked including the butt-plate), silver mounts (trigger-guard tang repaired, one sling loop missing, ramrod replaced, old wear and rust patination overall), 64.0 cm and 61.7 cm barrels respectively (2)
William Newton was nephew and successor of Edward Newton following the latter's death in 1764. Robert Wogdon, John Twigg and Joseph Manton were all apprenticed to Edward, however firearms by William are almost unheard of. W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back in Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, 1975, p. 85 cite 'when Edward Newton died, he left his business to his nephew William, whose signature we have located on only one gun.' For the gun mentioned, formerly in the A.N. Kennard collection, and for more information, see Wimsey 2000, pp. 281-303
Sold for £800
AND ANOTHER OF 14 BORE BY THE SAME MAKER, LONDON SILVER HALLMARKS FOR 1767, MAKER'S MARK OF JOSEPH KEAYS
the first with two-stage barrel with silver fore-sight and turned girdle, octagonal breech signed along the top flat (signature refreshed), William Newton's barrelsmith's marks and proof marks, gold-lined touch-hole, grooved border engraved tang decorated with foliage, signed flat bevelled lock with safety-catch, figured stock with take-down fore-end (partly replaced at the muzzle, some old bruising), skeleton butt (repaired) carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, border engraved steel mounts comprising shaped side-plate decorated with a trophy, vacant escutcheon on a pedestal, a shell above, trigger-guard with early form of acorn finial, turned ramrod-pipes, sling mount and later wooden ramrod (old wear and pitting); the second of similar form and condition (cock retaining screw replaced, steel refaced, fore-end partly replaced at the muzzle including dark horn cap, restocked including the butt-plate), silver mounts (trigger-guard tang repaired, one sling loop missing, ramrod replaced, old wear and rust patination overall), 64.0 cm and 61.7 cm barrels respectively (2)
William Newton was nephew and successor of Edward Newton following the latter's death in 1764. Robert Wogdon, John Twigg and Joseph Manton were all apprenticed to Edward, however firearms by William are almost unheard of. W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back in Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, 1975, p. 85 cite 'when Edward Newton died, he left his business to his nephew William, whose signature we have located on only one gun.' For the gun mentioned, formerly in the A.N. Kennard collection, and for more information, see Wimsey 2000, pp. 281-303
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025, 26th Jun, 2025
Auction Location: London, UK
The Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria department run by Thomas Del Mar is now a recognised world leader in this field.
The sales offer a broad selection of objects from all over the world, from the earliest times until the Great War. Firearms from the earliest matchlock, wheel-lock, flintlock, percussion and pin-fire guns, rifles, pistols and revolvers; edged weapons from the bronze age, Viking, Medieval and Renaissance periods through to the swords of the regular armies of the 18th and 19th centuries; armour from the earliest times through the medieval and renaissance periods to the First World War; African, Australasian, Chinese, Islamic and Japanese weapons and armour; accessories including gunpowder flasks, gun locks, mechanical locks, iron work and books.
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