With rebrowned twist octagonal barrels each with silver-fore-sight, narrowed breeches each with platinum line, rectangular platinum-lined maker's stamp and platinum-lined touch-hole, tangs engraved with foliage involving martial trophies and each incorporating a back-sight, signed border engraved serial numbered detented locks each engraved with a starburst and with foliage on the stepped tail, engraved safety-catches and 'French' cocks (top jaws and screws replaced), self-priming rainproof pans with circular vents in each steel, and rollers, figured half-stocks each with rounded spur, broadly chequered butts of flattened oval section with flat ovoidal pommels, the latter each encircled by an iron band engraved with overlapping scales, and inlaid with a border engraved serial numbered oval engraved 'Tatham & Egg's Improvement' centred on a flower-head incorporating the retaining screw, border engraved iron mounts comprising D-shaped trigger-guards, one retaining some original blueing on the inside and each engraved with a martial trophy and foliage on the bow, and fore-end caps also forming the ramrod-entry and each decorated with a starburst and foliage, set triggers, vacant silver escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, and original brass-tipped ramrods (one incomplete, some light pitting and rust patination in places): in contemporary relined and refitted mahogany case with some accessories including Sykes brass-mounted three-way powder-flask and iron bullet mould, the interior of the lid with an original maker's trade label (damaged), the exterior with flush-fitting brass carrying handle
21.5 cm. barrels