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A Continental 32-Bore Over-And-Under Flintlock Sporting GunLate 18th Century, Possibly Italian
25 July 2012, 10:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £812.50 inc. premium
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Late 18th Century, Possibly Italian
Late 18th Century, Possibly Italian
With shortened two-stage barrels each turned at the girdle and with octagonal breech sections, the top barrel with silver fore-sight and inlaid with silver and brass foliage below a crown at the breech, plain long tang, flat bevelled locks each with external mainspring and steel-spring, figured butt and fore-stocks (one split) with moulded borders, brass mounts comprising butt-plate and trigger-guard each with cast and chased foliate finial, the former engraved with a trophy, the latter with a rocaille on the bow, barrel bands and fore-end caps engraved en suite, brass sling loops, and later wooden ramrod (barrels and locks with some surface rust)
77.5 cm. barrels
77.5 cm. barrels








