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Lot 447

A 10-Bore Percussion Wildfowling Gun
By W.J. King of Birmingham, Mid-19th Century

26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A 10-Bore Percussion Wildfowling Gun
By W.J. King of Birmingham, Mid-19th Century

With rebrowned twist sighted barrel turned at the girdle and with faceted breech stamped 'Stubs' beneath, border engraved breech decorated with foliate scrollwork and with platinum plug, foliate scroll engraved tang, signed border engraved lock and hammer (spur repaired), the lock decorated with a gundog and a game bird in a landscape, figured half-stock (fore-end cap missing) with chequered grip, steel mounts engraved en suite with the lock including trigger-guard with game birds in an oval on the bow, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, vacant silver escutcheon, and original brass-mounted ramrod (barrel, lock and mounts pitted), London proof mark
149.5 cm. barrel

Footnotes

William James King is recorded at various addresses in Birmingham between 1824 and 1863

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