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JOHN DICKSON & SON
A PAIR OF 12-BORE 'LONDON PATTERN' SIDELOCK EJECTORS, serial no. 6744 / 5,
29in. nitro chopperlump barrels, ribs engraved 'JOHN DICKSON & SON. 63 PRINCES STREET. EDINBURGH', and gold-inlaid '1' and '2', 2 1/2in. chambers, bored approx. imp. cyl. and 1/2 choke, toplevers gold-inlaid '1' and '2', (No.1 sticking), automatic safeties with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' details, best fine acanthus scroll engraving with floral bouquets, retaining traces of original colour-hardening and finish, 14 1/2in. figured stocks, gold escutcheons engraved 'LORD INVERCLYDE I' and '2', weight 6lb. 9oz., in their leather case with gold-tooled red leather trade label, quilted internal protecting flap, the lid outer marked 'THE RIGHT HONble LORD INVERCLYDE OF CASTLE WEMYSS WEMYSS BAY RENFREWSHIRE', and with canvas and leather outer, marked 'INVERCLYDE SCOTS GUARDS'
Provenance: The makers have kindly confirmed that the guns were sold on the 19th September 1919 with 29in. barrels.
John Alan Burns, 4th Baron Inverclyde KStj (12th December 1897 - 17th June 1957) was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College.
He served in the Scots Guards as a subaltern during the First World War and was wounded in the hand 'going over the top' in France, the resultant complications preventing him from further front line service. He finished the War at the rank of Lieutenant serving at the War Office.
He succeeded to the title of Lord Inverclyde upon the death of his father in 1919 and was invested as a Knight of the Venerable Order of Saint John and was admitted to the Royal Company of Archers.
During the Second Word War, he served in France as a Captain in the Royal Scots Guards and ADC to the General Officer Commanding Lines of Communication. He was on board the RMS Lancastria (being evacuated from St. Nazaire) when it was sunk just of the French coast on the 17th June 1940. Rescued by the crew of HMT Cambridgeshire, an anti-submarine trawler, upon his safe return to British soil, he presented each of his rescuers with a rosewood box of cigarettes, each inlaid with a silver plaque, individually named and inscribed 'HMS Cambridgeshire, St. Nazaire to Plymouth, 17 to 19 June 1940, from a grateful passenger, Inverclyde / Scots Guards'.
He went on to become ADC to the Governor of Gibraltar and subsequently Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Scotland.
He died in 1957 without issue and the title became extinct. His entry in 'Burkes Peerage' is extensive and lists his many affiliations, Honorary diplomas and doctorates, Presidencies and Chairmanships of numerous associations and awards from around the world, including Officer of the Legion of Honour of France and Grand Cordon of Most Distinguished Order of Star of Ethiopia
Following the death of Lord Inverclyde in 1957, the guns passed into the possession of the husband of his eldest married niece, Commander Charles Alington RN. Upon his death in 1987, the guns were inherited by his son, the present seller.
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Estimate £7,000-9,000
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