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Lot Essay
Andreas Rheinhold Dolep, 'Dutchman', was one of the most important London gunmakers of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He was born in about 1648. In 1681 he worked for Sir Philip Howard, Commander of the Queen's Troop of Horseguards, and was fined in 1686 for unproved guns, but made free of the Gunmakers' Company by redemption in the same year at the request of Lord Dartmouth. He was granted denization in 1691 and married in 1687. He died in 1713
A number of pieces from the Dunmore armoury are on display at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia, as John Murray (1732-1809), 4th Earl of Dunmore, appointed the last British Governor of the colony of Virginia in 1770, resided in the Governor's Palace until he fled from it in June 1775
The present gun was made for either the 1st Earl (Lord Charles Murray, 1661-1710) or one of the six of his seven sons who survived until after circa 1710, two of whom became respectively the 2nd and 3rd Earls
A number of pieces from the Dunmore armoury are on display at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia, as John Murray (1732-1809), 4th Earl of Dunmore, appointed the last British Governor of the colony of Virginia in 1770, resided in the Governor's Palace until he fled from it in June 1775
The present gun was made for either the 1st Earl (Lord Charles Murray, 1661-1710) or one of the six of his seven sons who survived until after circa 1710, two of whom became respectively the 2nd and 3rd Earls