A MUSEUM TROPHY.
CRUSOE'S GUN.
The gun of that famous hero, Robinson Crusoe, immortalised by Daniel Defoe, is to be sold to a film -maker, who, after using it in a film production of the life of Crusoe, will present it to the British Museum. The gun is now reposing in its case at Messrs Charles Sawyer, the well known booksellers. "Mr. Berens, the antiquarian, pickcd it up in a romantic way," said Mr. Sawyer. "He was looking through the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford in 1882, when he saw the gun lying in the cases. He purchased it for 255. For several years the gun was in the British Museum until the death of Mr. Berens, when it was sold by auction." The gun is about seven feet high, and on. the butt is engraved on one side the owner's name, "A. Selkirk," and on the other side the place and date of his birth, "Largo, 1701."
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Northern Advocate, 20 June 1925, Page 11 (Supplement)
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157A MUSEUM TROPHY. Northern Advocate, 20 June 1925, Page 11 (Supplement)
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