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A best quality and an extremely rare pair of “Twelve-
Twenty” guns made by Charles Lancaster. Serial
no. 17333/34. Lightweight, spring opener, sidelock
ejector guns. 28 inch best nitro chopperlump
barrels, 2 3/4 inch chambers, bored approx
(No 1) 1/4 and 3/4 choke and (No 2) 1/8 and 3/4
choke. Engraved fluted fences. Locks and action
engraved with best English bouquet and scroll.
Lock plates signed Charles Lancaster and underneath
marked “THE TwELvE-TwENTy” in gold.
Plenty of faded colour-case-hardening. 15 inch
highly figured stocks with 1 1/5 inch rosewood
pads. The guns were finished in 1933 and they
have almost all-original finish intact.
In their oak and brass-cornered leather gun case
with canvas outer. various accessories: turn screws
and chamber brush with buffalo horn handle, snap
caps and nickel-plate oilcan with makers name,
round bone box for strikers, two-piece ebony
cleaning stock with various cleaning accessories.
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“the twelve-twenty” represents most likely the final
refinement of the best quality english sidelockgun.
the patents no.26.903 and 28.806 for this were
made by william Baker in 1906/1911. w.Baker was
one of the greatest British gun makers and inventers.
the spring opener eliminated the problem with “self
openers” : very easy to open, but often difficult to
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close! the Baker action is equalled smooth both ways.
another refinement is, that the mainsprings is only
coked, when the barrels is mounted. the mainsprings
are situated in a swivelling housing behind
the tumbler. this alone allows a stronger action. it is
not necessary to machine out slots to accommodate
the conventional mainsprings and cocking bars. this
design allows the width of the base of the action
is reduced. the ejectors are considered the most
dependable ever made.
the action is extremely slim line, mostly like a .20
gauge. the weight is less than 6 pounds and yet it
has exceptional section strength. Like the Dickson
round-action, the design gives good handling
characteristics. to reduce the overall weight of the
gun, the thickness of barrel walls is also reduced.
this provides a nice central balance. the Baker
patens were also used by other well-known gun
makers like: e. J. churchill, william powel, Stephan
Grant and others. S.Grant named his version “Light
weight”. But it was the “12/20” which became commonly
known. this was mainly due to the fact that
char. Lancaster had the most efficient marketing.
this design is the finest, strongest and most elegant
of its kind in the evolution of the British sidelock.
Maybe the final design. no significant improvements
have been made since this w. Baker design. only a
few couple of hundreds of these guns were made.
€ 33.500-40.000 250.000-300.000
BRUUN RASMUSSEN wEAPON AUCTION 757