John Dickson & Son Round-Action, made in 1904 - Re-Manufactured 2025
12 gauge, patent triggerplate action, side-by-side shotgun
£40,000
This is an opportunity to obtain a bespoke gun and go through the stages of building a gun to your specification but with reduction in waiting time and cost over a new gun build.
This particular gun has crisp bouquet and rose scroll panel engraving pattern from the Sumner workshop.
- New 28 inch chopper-lump barrels have been fitted
- New stock and fore-end made and fitted in highly figured walnut
- New internal springs and pins where necessary, all new pins externally
- New gold wash to protect the internal components
- All engraving picked-up where necessary on furniture
- Best colour hardening reapplied to protect and enhance the external surfaces of the gun
- The gun is complete and available in the USA
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Provenance
Delivered as a single gun to a prominent gentleman in Edinburgh who ran the success family business of William Ritchie & Sons - Photographers, Wholesale Stationers and Printers.

You can see Dickson's shop in this picture postcard of Princes Street in 1900,
printed by William Ritchie & Sons
Specification
- Price: £40,000
- Gauge: 12
- Barrel Length: 28in
- Chambers: 2 3/4in (70mm)
- Proof: Nitro Proof 2024
- Chokes: 1/4 & 1/2
- Stock Length: Drop at Comb 1 5/8in, Drop at Heel 2 1/4in, Length to centre 15 1/4in
- Weight: 6lb 14oz
- Location: USA