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A .650 CALIBRE DUTCH PERCUSSION CAVALRY CARBINE, DATED 1834 a regulation conversion from flintlock, with sighted 50.3cm barrel retained by a single brass band, and stamped with the date and inspector's mark at the breech (pitted), dated lock stamped with the inspector's mark P crowned, regulation walnut half-stock hollowed for the cheek, brass mounts, steel saddle bar, and no provision for a ramrod 88.2cm; 34 3/4in overall £300-400 | Nil |
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250 |
| 423 | A RARE .600 CALIBRE PERCUSSION BREECH-LOADING UNDER-HAMMER SCHEEL PATENT MILITARY RIFLE, SÖDERMANLAND PROOF MARKS, NO. 182, CIRCA 1845 with sighted barrel retained by a pair of brass bands, fitted with standing back-sight ahead of the breech, tip-up breech operated by a lever on the right, under-hammer action incorporating a ring for cocking, regulation walnut full stock, raised cheek-piece, brass butt-plate, steel trigger-guard, and steel sling swivels 83.2cm; 32 3/4in barrel Frederick Wilhelm Scheel, a Norwegian army officer and gun designer read of the American Hall rifle and adapted it into his own patent incorporating the under-hammer design of the Danish Löbnitz patent. In 1838 it was presented for tests by a Royal Commission, and one hundred of these rifles were tested by an infantry battalion in 1842. In the same year it was adopted by the Norwegian army and thus became the first breech-loader to be adopted as the single standard military firearm for a nation. See C.Blair (ed.) 1983, pp.242-243. £400-500 | Nil |
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550 |
| 424 | A 28 BORE AUSTRIAN MODEL 1854/67 WANZL SYSTEM INFANTRY RIFLE, DATED 1857; A .500 CALIBRE BELGIAN ALBINI-BRAENDLIN SYSTEM CARBINE, LIÈGE PROOF, CIRCA 1860; AND A 16 BORE CONTINENTAL D.B. PERCUSSION SHOTGUN (the first two heavily pitted, the first drilled through at the muzzle); (the steel parts pitted, the muzzle drilled through); the third with twist sighted barrels, scroll-engraved back-action locks (one hammer detached), and figured walnut half-stock carved with a lionshead in the round on the underside of the butt (worn) the first: 88.5cm; 34 7/8in barrel (3) £300-400 | Nil |
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380 |
| 425 | A .700 CALIBRE BELGIAN PERCUSSION MUSKET, LIÈGE PROOF, CIRCA 1830, AND A BELGIAN .700 PERCUSSION MUSKET, CIRCA 1830 with tapering barrel retained by three brass bands, regulation steel lock, walnut full stock, regulation brass mounts, and steel ramrod; and the second rebuilt from flintlock, with tapering sighted barrel retained by two steel bands, regulation style lock, walnut full stock, steel mounts including butt-plate with pronounced lower spur, and steel ramrod the first: 79.8cm; 31 3/8in barrel (2) £250-350 | Nil |
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200 |
| 426 | A 16 BORE D.B. FRENCH PIN-FIRE SPORTING GUN BY VERNEY-CARRON FRERES, A ST ETIENNE, CIRCA 1860 AND ANOTHER, SIGNED THALVARD A VILLE FRANCE, CIRCA 1860 with sighted barrels released by a secondary pivot-lever under the fore-end, double bite action engraved with shaped panels filled with chequer pattern, signed back-action lock decorated en suite, walnut half-stock, and steel mounts including scrolling trigger-guard and a pair of steel sling swivels; and the second similar, with signed back-action locks engraved with foliage, figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, and steel mounts 76.5cm; 30 1/8in barrels (2) £300-400 | Nil |
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450 |
| 427 | A 16 BORE CONTINENTAL D.B. PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN BY E. SCHLÜTER, CIRCA 1840 with rebrowned sighted barrel signed on the rib, engraved breech inlaid with a silver line, engraved plugs, engraved tang, scroll-engraved locks fitted with gravity stops, inlaid with silver hounds and rabbits in a landscape on the tails, figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, strongly cast-off butt with raised cheek-piece, moulded horn trigger-guard with terminal of shaped outline, engraved German silver butt-cap, and original horn-tipped wooden ramrod 83.2cm; 32 3/4in barrels £150-250 | Nil |
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160 |
| 428 | A SAXON PERCUSSION TARGET RIFLE, schÜtzenbÜchse, BY a. FISCHER, MEHLIS, CIRCA 1850 with two-stage sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves, recessed muzzle for loading, stamped 'LW.SB.No.39' on a short flat and fitted with adjustable blued back-sight, separate breech stamped 'AF', the tang with provision for a further sight, signed flush-fitting lock, figured light walnut three-quarter full stock, raised cheek-piece, plain brass mounts including trigger-guard hollowed for the fingers and butt-plate with pronounced spur, a pair of steel sling swivels, brass fore-end cap, and original brass-tipped steel ramrod 81.2cm; 32in barrel £300-400 | Nil |
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520 |
| 429 | AN AUSTRIAN PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLE, CIRCA 1760 converted from flintlock, with octagonal blued swamped sighted barrel (back-sight removed), rifled with six grooves, slender rounded lock, figured walnut full stock lightly carved and incised with foliage about the barrel tang, over the fore-end and the butt, the latter with carved raised cheek-piece and patchbox fitted with sliding cover, brass mounts of shaped outline, including solid side-plate, wooden trigger-guard reinforced with a brass strip drawn-out to a broad terminal, the heel of the butt with petal-shaped cap, and three ramrod-pipes, and horn fore-end cap (ramrod missing); and A PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN BY J. SCHEMETYLER, CIRCA 1800, converted from flintlock, with three-stage sighted barrel stamped with a mark, L crowned, at the breech, the tang engraved '1', signed border-engraved lock decorated with a garland beneath the bolster, figured walnut half-stock, raised cheek-piece , the fore-end stained in imitation of a horn cap, brass mounts comprising butt-plate of shaped outline engraved with the owner's initials, wooden trigger-guard reinforced with a brass plate en suite with the butt-plate, and a pair of faceted ramrod-pipes (ramrod missing) 101cm; 39 3/4in barrel (2) £300-400 | Nil |
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300 |
| 430 | A SOUTH GERMAN PERCUSSION OVER-AND-UNDER SPORTING GUN BY F. HONOLD A ULM, CIRCA 1800 converted from flintlock, with two-stage tapering barrels, the upper fitted with silver 'Spider' fore-sight and signed in silver over the breech, border-engraved locks fitted with gravity stops, figured walnut half-stock inlaid with pierced bone plaques of shaped outline, chequered fore-end and grip each studded with numerous silver nails, the butt inlaid with silver wire filigree on both sides, the left with raised cheek-piece and the right inlaid with a star in contrasting pieces of horn and mother-of-pearl, wooden trigger-guard studded with silver nails, and horn fore-end cap (worn, ramrod missing) 81.7cm; 32 1/4in barrels £1500-1800 | Nil |
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1400 |
| 431 | A CONTINENTAL PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN, THE LOCKS BY F. A. GEORGE KONIGL. HOF. BÜCHSENM. IN BERLIN, LIÈGE PROOF, CIRCA 1850 with etched twist sighted barrels signed 'Lassence Rongé in Luttich', engraved breech, scroll-engraved breech tang decorated with a stag and numbered '1', engraved flush-fitting locks signed in two parts and decorated with a brace of pheasant and a hound respectively, blued triggers, figured walnut half-stock chequered grip, raised cheek-piece, engraved steel trigger-guard with an additional carved horn grip, engraved steel butt-plate numbered 417, a pair of steel sling swivels, German silver barrel bolt escutcheons, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod, perhaps the original 94.6cm; 37 1/4in barrels £200-250 | Nil |
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320 |
| 432 | A 54 BORE PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLE FOR BELTED BALL BY ANCELL, CIRCA 1840 with rebrowned sighted barrel rifled with a pair of grooves, engraved breech fitted with screw-in bolster, engraved slender breech tang, signed engraved back-action lock fitted with sliding bolt safety-catch, figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, engraved steel mounts comprising scrolling trigger-guard, butt-plate, sling swivel, silver barrel bolt escutcheons, and silver fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod, probably the original 72cm; 28 1/4in barrel Robert Ancell is recorded in Perth between 1820-52. £750-900 | Nil |
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800 |
| 433 | A 27 BORE PERCUSSION TARGET RIFLE BY GEORGE H. DAW, 57 THREADNEEDLE STREET, LONDON, NO.3552, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1861-65 with tapering sighted barrel rifled with four grooves for Jacob's type bullets, and fitted with folding calibrated ladder back-sight, border-engraved tang, signed border-engraved flush-fitting lock, retaining its original nipple protector, figured walnut half-stock, finely chequered grip, border-engraved steel mounts comprising trigger-guard, butt-plate, fore-end cap and barrel bolt escutcheons, a pair of ramrod-pipes, vacant silver escutcheon, and original brass-tipped ramrod 61.3cm; 24 1/8in barrel George Henry Daw is recorded at this address between 1862-79 and manufactured improved versions of General Jacob's rifles. £800-1000 | Nil |
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900 |
| 434 | A CASED PAIR OF 12 BORE D.B. PERCUSSION SPORTING GUNS MADE FOR THE EARL OF LICHFIELD, BY J. PURDEY, 514 1/2 OXFORD STREET, LONDON, NO. 5170 & 5171 FOR 1856 each with browned twist barrels signed on the rib and fitted with bead fore-sight, scroll-engraved numbered breeches inlaid with a platinum line, pierced engraved platinum plugs, grooved numbered tangs engraved with scrolling foliage, signed locks finely engraved with tightly scrolling foliage fitted with hammers engraved en suite, highly figured polished walnut half-stock, chequered fore-end and grip, engraved blued steel mounts comprising trigger-guard, butt-plate, barrel bolt escutcheons and fore-end caps all decorated en suite with the locks (the barrel bolts with minor chips), and silver-gilt escutcheons engraved with the with the Earl of Lichfield's crest above a cornet, and remaining in good condition with some early refinishing throughout: in their original two-tier brass bound oak case, the lid applied with engraved trade label (small creases, lid cracked), complete with a contemporary leather shot bandolier 76.5cm; 30 1/8in barrel The Purdey Legders confirm that these guns were made for the Earl of Lichfield in 1856 £8000-12000 | 5% |
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11500 |
| 435 | A 14 BORE D.B. PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN BY SMITH, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, MID-19TH CENTURY AND A 20 BORE BELGIAN PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN, LIÈGE PROOF, MID-19TH CENTURY with rebrowned sighted barrels engraved at the breech and inlaid with two lines, signed scroll-and border-engraved locks, figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, and engraved steel mounts (worn, later ramrod); the second with two-stage sighted barrel, engraved tang, scroll-engraved back-action lock, and walnut half-stock carved with a stag's head in the round over the grip and engraved German silver mounts (worn, later ramrod) 76cm; 29 7/8in barrels (2) £180-220 | Nil |
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250 |
| 436 | A CASED 13 BORE D.B. PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN BY SNOWDON, ALNWICK, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1840 with signed rebrowned sighted barrels, engraved case-hardened breech decorated with a hound's head on the top and with platinum plugs, signed border-and scroll-engraved locks decorated with hounds and a pheasant (one hammer replaced), figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, engraved steel mounts including trigger-guard decorated with a hound, white metal barrel bolt escutcheons, and original brass-tipped wooden ramrod: in a later brass bound fitted oak case lined in green baize, complete with some accessories including pigskin-covered powder-flask by Sykes 86.2cm; 34in barrels George Snowdon is recorded in Narrowgate, Alnwick circa 1833-58. £600-800 | Nil |
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950 |
| 437 | A 14 BORE PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN BY LOWE, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, MID-19TH CENTURY with tapering sighted barrels, inlaid with a platinum line on the rib at the breeches, platinum plugs, scroll-engraved breech tang, signed back-action locks engraved with differing game vignettes, engraved hammers, figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, engraved steel mounts, white metal barrel bolt escutcheons, and vacant white metal escutcheon (areas of wear, ramrod missing) 76.5cm; 30 1/8in barrels £200-300 | Nil |
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300 |
| 438 | A RARE 13 BORE BENTLEY'S PATENT ENCLOSED ACTION PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, NO. 31, CIRCA 1840 with rebrowned sighted barrel formed in three stages, scroll-engraved action cover signed 'J. Bentley Patentee and maker', scroll-engraved tang, the action incorporating a sprung cylindrical striker set by a robust recurved forward trigger, figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, engraved steel mounts including square-fronted trigger-guard, and butt-cap decorated with scrollwork on the tang, horn fore-end cap, silver barrel bolt escutcheons, and brass-tipped wooden ramrod, probably the original 76cm; 30in barrel This gun incorporates George Stocker and Joseph Bentley's patent no. 4024 of 1839. See L. Winant 1959, pp.89-90, plates 87 and 88. £400-500 | Nil |
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880 |
| 439 | A 16 BORE D.B. PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN BY WILLIAM HOLE, GUNMAKER 27 HIGH STREET, BRISTOL, NO. 3548, CIRCA 1840 with signed twist sighted barrels, engraved case-hardened breeches inlaid with a gold line, pierced platinum plugs, scroll-engraved tang, signed engraved locks decorated with scrollwork, border ornament and differing game vignettes (one hammer chipped), figured walnut half-stock fitted with two silver plaques beneath the breeches, chequered grip, engraved steel mounts (worn), and silver barrel bolt escutcheons (ramrod replaced) 77.2cm; 30 3/8in barrels William Hole is recorded at this address 1839-44. £300-400 | Nil |
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280 |
| 440 | A 54 BORE BELGIAN PIN-FIRE REVOLVING CARBINE, LIÈGE PROOF, CIRCA 1860 with blued octagonal sighted barrel encrusted with silver linear ornament and foliage at the breech and muzzle and rifled with twelve grooves, blued cylinder encrusted with silver vine foliage, blued frame decorated en suite, fitted with loading gate and clearing rod on the right, figured walnut half-stock carved with foliage behind the action and chequered over the grip (bruised), and engraved steel mounts including scrolling trigger-guard decorated with silver en suite with the frame and cylinder, and a pair of steel sling swivels (the bluing worn, silver with small losses, areas of pitting) 66.5cm; 26 1/8in barrel £500-700 | Nil |
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700 |
| 441 | A 22 BORE GERMAN FLINTLOCK WENDER RIFLE BY JAKUB HEILER, CIRCA 1740 with two-stage tapering sighted barrels formed with a long flat, rifled with seven and six grooves respectively and signed on the upper, fitted with a facing plate at the breech engraved with a panel of foliage on each side, bevelled lock engraved with a line around the border, figured walnut full stock carved with a raised foliate moulding about the tang, moulded over the fore-end, raised cheek-piece, and fluted sliding patchbox cover, steel mounts including solid side-plate decorated en suite with the lock, sliding trigger-guard releasing the barrels, butt plate with engraved tang of shaped outline, and a pair of sling swivels (later ramrod, the steel parts chemically cleaned) 85cm; 33 1/2in barrels £1000-1500 | Nil |
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1300 |
| 442 | A SPANISH MIQUELET-LOCK SPORTING GUN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY with two-stage sighted barrel stamped with a mark at the breech, beneath a crown 'Jem. Betolaza' (partly obscured), and retained by three slender brass bands, flat lock of characteristic type stamped with the maker's mark inside, beneath a crown 'Vrigoen', figured stained walnut stock with 'Catalan', butt, brass mounts of shaped outline, and two steel sling swivels (ramrod missing, cleaned overall) 87.5cm; 34 1/2in barrel £400-600 | Nil |
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400 |
| 443 | A 22 BORE DUTCH D.B. FLINTLOCK SPORTING CARBINE SIGNED A LA HAYE, CIRCA 1790 with tapering barrels fitted with silver fore-sight and retaining traces of the barrelsmith's stamp over the breeches, gold-lined vents, stepped locks signed by the maker on one side (indistinct) and inscribed 'A La Haye' on the other (one top-jaw and screw missing), figured walnut half-stock (bruised), carved cheek-piece, the grip cut with chequering in the English taste, steel mounts and associated ramrod (the steel parts patinated) 62cm; 24 3/8in barrels £500-600 | Nil |
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580 |
| 444 | A .650 CALIBRE DUTCH FLINTLOCK JAEGER RIFLE BY THONE, AMSTERDAM, CIRCA 1790 with octagonal barrel rifled with seven broad grooves, fitted with folding back-sight (fore-sight removed), and with traces of a town mark at the breech, signed bevelled lock with rounded tail fitted with dog safety-catch (top-jaw and screw missing), figured walnut stock with carved raised cheek-piece, patchbox with sliding cover (small chips and light bruising), regulation brass mounts, brass fore-end cap and brass-tipped steel ramrod (sling swivels missing) 75.5cm; 29 3/4in barrel £700-900 | Nil |
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900 |
| 445 | A DUTCH COLONIAL FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY with swamped steel barrel strongly swelling and fluted towards the muzzle, inlaid with fine brass linear patterns and a central foliate panel, English regulation lock stamped with 'GR' crowned, Tower and with Ordnance mark, hardwood full stock (cracks and repairs), boldly carved with flowers on the right of the butt, brass regulation mounts and a pair of steel sling swivels (ramrod and fore-end cap missing) 112cm; 44 1/8in £500-700 | Nil |
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| 446 | A .700 CALIBRE CONTINENTAL FLINTLOCK MUSKET OF REGULATION TYPE, LIÈGE PROOF, AND A 20 BORE CONTINENTAL FLINTLOCK TRADE GUN, LIÈGE PROOF, 19TH CENTURY with tapering barrel retained by three steel bands, large rounded lock fitted with pierced cock, full stock impressed 8462 on the left of the butt, and regulation steel mounts; the second with two-stage barrel, engraved lock signed 'Mre J. F. & Co a Liége [sic]', hardwood full stock carved with a hook on the spine of the butt, and brass mounts the first 93.5cm; 36 3/4in barrel (2) £300-500 | Nil |
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| 447 | A .750 CALIBRE EAST INDIA COMPANY WINDUS PATTERN FLINTLOCK MUSKET, LATE 18TH CENTURY AND A 20 BORE PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY the first of standard specifications, the lock stamped with the East India mark and the date, perhaps 1790, and complete with a socket bayonet (worn, rusted throughout); the second converted from flintlock, with sighted barrel, engraved stepped cock, and figured walnut half-stock (worn throughout, the steel parts painted black) the first: 99cm; 39in barrel (2) £500-700 | Nil |
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800 |
| 448 | A FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN, CIRCA 1730, PROBABLY DUTCH with fine two-stage sighted barrel, chiselled in relief with mounted warriors in foliate frames involving grotesques, trophies-of-arms, and a reclining classical warrior at the base, all on a punched ground (the vent lining removed), engraved tang, rounded lock engraved in the manner of Jean Berain, decorated with a horned trumpeting devil on the tail and a female dragon beneath the pan, root walnut half-stock, carved with foliage about the barrel tang and the mounts (fore-end with a small crack), blued steel mounts including flat scrolling side-plate, butt-plate, moulded trigger-guard with acanthus terminal, knuckle-guard with moulded tang drawn-up to a baluster moulding with an acanthus terminal, a pair of moulded brass ramrod-pipes, and horn fore-end cap (the barrel and mounts finished) 118.7cm; 46 3/4in barrel £1000-1500 | Nil |
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1700 |
| 449 | A .700 CALIBRE COMPOSITE CONTINENTAL FLINTLOCK MUSKET, AND A .750 CALIBRE COMPOSITE CONTINENTAL FLINTLOCK CARBINE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY the first with tapering barrel retained by three barrel bands, the tang re-engraved with the date 1763, regulation lock with rounded tail and brass pan, full stock with recessed cheek-piece, and steel mounts; the second with earlier barrel retained by two steel bands, strongly bevelled lock, walnut full stock (chipped), and regulation steel mounts the first: 92.5cm; 36 3/8in barrel (2) £250-350 | Nil |
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| 450 | A GERMAN AIR GUN OF BELLOWS TYPE BY F. A. ROTMAUER IN LEGAU, CIRCA 1760 with signed swamped octagonal sighted barrel fitted with a brass sleeve, plain tang, fully enclosed mechanism, figured walnut full stock carved and incised with rococo scrollwork about the tang, behind the ramrod-pipe and over the butt, raised cheek-piece carved with further designs and fitted with a bolt for winding the mechanism behind, wooden trigger-guard with brass reinforce of shaped outline, brass mounts including a pair of scrolling panels on each side of the mechanism in imitation of a side-plate, two-piece butt-plate, three ramrod-pipes, and complete with its original brass ramrod incomplete, the stock with minor repairs and worm damage) 81.5cm; 32 in barrel A gun of similar date and signed Franz Anthony Rotmauer in Legau is preserved in a German ancestral collection. £500-600 | Nil |
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550 |
| 451 | A 28 BORE GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY with octagonal swamped sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, stamped with the maker's initials, the letters 'I M' a flowerhead between, and a brass-lined barrelsmith's mark, a female bust, at the breech, flat lock fitted with enclosed wheel, sliding pan-cover, pan-fence engraved with the letters 'M Z', flash-guard, and dog with enclosed outer face, set trigger, figured walnut full stock moulded over the fore-end (repaired), carved cheek-piece inset with a horn rondel, patchbox with sliding cover inlaid with a shaped panel of horn, steel trigger-guard, horn butt-plate, ramrod-pipes, and fore-end cap, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod, perhaps the original 85.7cm; 33 3/4in barrel £800-1000 | Nil |
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950 |
