With swamped sighted rifled barrel cut with sixteen shallow grooves and formed in three stages divided by raised mouldings, the breech section signed 'R. Rowland - London' and engraved at the rear with a transverse band of acanthus foliage in front of a baluster ramp slotted for sighting, engraved shaped tang, signed border engraved rounded lock with bridle to the pan, moulded figured full stock carved in relief with shell motifs at the barrel tang and in front of the lock and side-plate, border engraved iron trigger-guard unscrewing to allow loading from beneath and fitted with threaded iron breech plug, border engraved brass butt-plate, scroll side-plate and vacant escutcheon, the first with long stepped tang (heel damaged), the second engraved with foliage involving a grotesque profile head, brass trigger-plate, three baluster brass ramrod-pipes, and brass-capped ramrod, the underside of the butt fitted with a spring-loaded iron arm housed in an iron trap, serrated on its inner surface and serving to hook on to the branches of trees when climbing and waiting for deer (stock chipped around the lock and with minor bruises, iron parts with some wear and scattered surface pitting), London proof marks and barrelsmith's mark of Robert Rowland
91.8 cm. barrel