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Lot 328*

A 10-Bore Gold-Decorated D.B. Percussion Heavy Game Rifle
By Joseph Lang, Haymarket, London, No. 1178, Circa 1850

6 April 2006, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A 10-Bore Gold-Decorated D.B. Percussion Heavy Game Rifle
By Joseph Lang, Haymarket, London, No. 1178, Circa 1850

With rebrowned twist leaf-sighted barrels thickly gold-damascened with flowering foliage against a gold ground at the muzzle and breech, signed in full along the rib, and each rifled with ten grooves, gold-damascened breeches with pierced platinum plugs, tang, signed detented bolted locks, hammers and mounts all decorated en suite with the barrels, the latter comprising butt-plate (some wear), oval grip-plate, trigger-guard, trigger-plate with pineapple finial and ramrod-pipes, figured half-stock with chequered pistol-grip and fore-end, butt with cheekpiece, gilt triggers, vacant silver escutcheon, and original brass-mounted ramrod, London proof marks and maker's mark
74.9 cm. barrels

Footnotes

The gold-damascened decoration carried out in India during the rifle's working life

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