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COGSWELL & HARRISON
A MATCHED PAIR OF 12-BORE "AVANT TOUT" MODEL BOXLOCK EJECTOR GUNS, NOS. 41673/41680
30-inch barrels with 2 1/2-inch chambers, about improved cylinder and 3/8 choke borings, top extension, the rounded frames, side plates and top levers with foliate scroll engraving and retaining much original hardening colour, 15 1/2-inch figured stock including 1 1/2-inch extension, 7lb., nitro proof, in their maker's brassbound canvas case
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The guns were built for Brigadier General Alexander Ramsay Harman, CMG, DSO. Born in 1877 he served in the Sudan campaign of 1898 and the South African war. He retired in 1913 and was re-called on reserve to command the 7th BN Worcestershire Regiment in 1916. He was awarded the DSO for gallantry and mentioned in dispatches three times. He retired in 1920 and died in 1954. His 1901 diary records that on Tuesday 17th December, "... after luncheon, went to Cogswell & Harrison about my guns.." and on Wednesday 18th December "..after breakfast went to Cogswell & Harrison's trial place, close to Victoria railway station..". |
| £700-900
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| Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns |
| Pulbourgh, West Sussex |
| 29 April 2026 |
| Commission is 25% ex. VAT. Artist's Resale Right may apply |
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