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From a story in the
Scotsman:
A unique triple-barrelled shotgun made for a Scots aristocrat has been
sold at auction for £43,000 (then $66,000). The shotgun - dubbed the
"Holy Grail" - was made in April 1891 for John Adrian Louis Hope, 1st
Marquess of Linlithgow and the seventh Earl of Hopetoun. The
three-barrelled ejector, 16-bore gun, with three triggers, was designed
by renowned Edinburgh gun makers John Dickson & Son and is the only
one of its kind. Its origins were identified after the gun was taken to
a valuing event at Hopetoun House, South Queensferry, and it has now
been sold at Holt's auction in London, to a private collector, after
fierce bidding from around the world.
Holt's founder, Nicholas Holt, said: "This is completely unique - the
holy grail for any shotgun collector. "The gun maker, which still
exists in Edinburgh, looked back in their records and found this was
the only single 16-bore, round action side by side by side ejector ever
made. The mechanism was too complex to make more, but it still works
fantastically well today and is capable of shooting three gamebirds
with its three barrels."
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When
I spied this picture without explanation, I was sure them was the
8 gauge 
barrels of a "coach gun," and I wanted it. Since it's only a
common 16 gauger, not so much. |
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