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Lot 321

A Scottish 18-Bore Percussion Sporting Gun For Ball
By R. Ancell, Perth, Circa 1840

6 April 2006, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Scottish 18-Bore Percussion Sporting Gun For Ball
By R. Ancell, Perth, Circa 1840

With heavy sighted barrel engraved with a starburst and 'Perth' at the breech, foliate engraved breech, signed flat lock (mainspring missing), figured half-stock (minor repair in front of the lock) with chequered grip, steel mounts engraved with martial trophies and foliage comprising butt-plate and scroll trigger-guard, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, vacant silver escutcheon, horn fore-end cap, and later brass-tipped ramrod (one ramrod-pipe missing, steel parts with surface rust patination overall), Birmingham proof marks
79.5 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Robert Ancell is known to have been a maker of all-metal flintlock pistols and was located on George Street, Perth

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