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Lot 236

A 10-Bore Percussion Sporting Gun
By Stevens, Probably James, London, Circa 1815-22

24 November 2010, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A 10-Bore Percussion Sporting Gun
By Stevens, Probably James, London, Circa 1815-22

Converted from flintlock, with rebrowned twist sighted barrel in three stages and turned at the girdle, octagonal breech becoming polygonal and signed in gold along the top flat, breech with gold lines, foliate engraved tang, border engraved flat bevelled lock signed in gold and decorated with foliage and starbursts, foliate engraved dolphin hammer, figured half-stock with chequered grip and fore-end, the former with cheekpiece, and reinforced with a silver plate above the lock, border engraved russet iron mounts comprising butt-plate decorated with a gundog in a landscape on the heel, scroll trigger-guard with a gamebird in a landscape on the bow, trigger-plate with foliate finial, vacant silver escutcheon and barrel-bolt escutcheons, silver fore-end cap, and brass-mounted ramrod, London proof marks, the barrel forged by William Fullerd
79.5 cm. barrel

Footnotes

James Stevens was successor to Wattell Clark. He was succeeded himself by Thomas Stevens at 43 High Holborn in 1823

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