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Lot 219

A 13-Bore D.B. Percussion Sporting Gun
By Edward Twigg Of Birmingham, Circa 1840

25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A 13-Bore D.B. Percussion Sporting Gun
By Edward Twigg Of Birmingham, Circa 1840

With browned twist sighted barrels, breeches with gold line and engraved with a waterfowl between, long slender foliate scroll engraved tang, foliate scroll engraved back-action locks each signed on a scroll and decorated with a differing scene inhabited by a cock and hen pheasant, highly figured half-stock with chequered grip, steel mounts (some wear) comprising butt-plate engraved on the tang and trigger-guard with a gundog and gamebirds in a landscape on the bow, trigger-plate with engraved pineapple-shaped finial, vacant silver escutcheon and barrel-bolt escutcheons, and later wooden ramrod, Birmingham proof marks
74.5 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Edward Twigg is recorded at 34 Wittall Street, Birmingham between 1838-1845

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