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Fascinating Prototype Gun Among Highlights of Annual Gleneagles Auction

LONDON.- A historically important prototype 12-bore over and under single trigger ejector gun by London gunmaker Boss & Co.. is among the highlights of Gavin Gardiner’s annual auction of Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns, which will be held in association with Sotheby’s at the prestigious Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland. The sale, now in its 44th year, will take place on the evening of Monday, August 22, 2011. Built in 1909 this was the first Boss Over and Under gun built and was used extensively by the firm as their demonstrator to show customers the advantages of their revolutionary new design and to develop the production techniques for the guns that were subsequently built (Est: £10,000-15,000). As Gavin Gardiner explains: “The Boss design has been copied by almost every maker since, and it truly is the father of the modern Over and Under sporting shotgun. It is still the one by w