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Lot 446

A 13-Bore Percussion Sporting Gun
Signed Smith, Mid-19th Century

26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A 13-Bore Percussion Sporting Gun
Signed Smith, Mid-19th Century

With rebrowned twist sighted three-stage barrel turned at the girdle and unusually formed with a twist damascus section at the breech, octagonal breech section becoming polygonal, plain breech, long foliate engraved tang, signed border engraved back-action lock decorated with a pheasant in a landscape, engraved steel mounts including scoll trigger-guard decorated en suite on the bow and with pineapple finial, figured half-stock (fore-end chipped and repaired along one side) with chequered grip, vacant white-metal escutcheon, and later brass-tipped ramrod (fore-end cap missing, worn overall), Birmingham proof marks
80.2 cm. barrel

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