With swamped brass barrels each signed 'H. Hadley London' within a long engraved loop on the top flat at the breech and engraved with a band of acanthus foliage at the rear, gold-lined touch-holes, blued grooved tangs, blued flat bevelled locks (one cock an old replacement, steels with some minor pitting) each with stepped tail and Hadley's own gold-lined stamp in the Spanish fashion, chiselled steel-springs, figured full stocks (one probably an old replacement, one fore-end split in the ramrod channel) each with apron around the barrel tang, full silver mounts finely cast and chased in relief, comprising side-plates pierced with foliage, a flower-head and a scallop shell, all centred on a shaped cartouche, vacant escutcheons en suite and each with a shell above, spurred pommels each with a grotesque mask cap within a border of linked scallop shells, trigger-guards each with finial en suite with the side-plates, turned ramrod-pipes, original silver-tipped ramrods, one with iron worm, and in 'untouched condition' (one trigger tip missing, silver with some tarnishing), London proof marks and barrelsmith's mark 'TH' (2)
22.5 cm. barrels