£43k shotgun auction may inspire antique appraisals
The gun is believed to be the only one of its kind around.
The news that a shotgun has fetched £43,000 at auction may inspire antique appraisals.
People looking for accurate pre-sale estimates may be interested to note the item - which was known as the Holy Grail - was made in April 1891, the Scotsman reports.
It was created for John Adrian Louis Hope, First Marquess of Linlithgow and the seventh Earl of Hopetoun by Edinburgh gun makers John Dickson & Son.
What's more, the product - which went under the hammer and was eventually sold to a private collector at a Holt's auction in London - is believed to be the only one of its kind in the world.
Founder of the auctioneers Nicholas Holt said: "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."
This comes after a James Bond gun sold for more than its pre-sale estimate earlier this year to fetch £277,500 at auction.