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Lot 232

A 13-Bore Thomas Turner Patent 'Bar-In-Wood' D.B. Pin-Fire Sporting Gun
By Thomas Turner, Patentee, 8 Fisher Street, Birmingham, No. 38, Circa 1865-70

24 November 2010, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A 13-Bore Thomas Turner Patent 'Bar-In-Wood' D.B. Pin-Fire Sporting Gun
By Thomas Turner, Patentee, 8 Fisher Street, Birmingham, No. 38, Circa 1865-70

With damascus twist sighted barrels signed in full along the rib, breeches each engraved with a starburst and with foliate scrollwork between, foliate scroll engraved tang, signed border engraved flat locks, rounded hammers, butt-plate and trigger-guard, the russet mounts retaining faint traces of original blueing, action flat stamped 'Tho.s Turner Patent', chequered barrel-release lever fitting into the back of the trigger-guard, figured butt with slender extension, and chequered grip and detachable fore-end, the latter with dark horn tip (escutcheon missing, some surface rust), Birmingham proof marks
71 cm. barrels

Footnotes

This gun incorporates Thomas Turner's British Patent No. 2582 of 19 October 1864

Thomas Turner was a prolific maker specialising in the manufacture of rifles for which he was granted numerous patents. He appears to have made many of the rifles used for trials by the British War Office in the late 1850s and his .451 rifles were amongst the most popular into the 1860s, rivalled only by Whitworth and L.A.C. Kerr

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