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Lot 448

A 10-Bore Percussion Sporting Gun
By William Smart, Cheltenham, Circa 1830

26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A 10-Bore Percussion Sporting Gun
By William Smart, Cheltenham, Circa 1830

With etched twist damascus sighted barrel in three stages and turned at the girdle, octagonal breech becoming polygonal, signed in gothic script along the top flat and stamped 'Smart Damascus' beneath, border engraved case-hardened breech with gold-lined maker's stamp within a border of engraved foliage, gold line and pierced platinum plug, foliate scroll engraved case-hardened tang grooved for sighting, signed border engraved case-hardened lock engraved with a gundog and game birds in a landscape, foliate engraved dolphin hammer, figured half-stock with chequered grip, border engraved blued steel mounts decorated with foliage and comprising butt-plate with a pheasant perched on a branch on the heel tang, and trigger-guard with a gundog and pheasant on the bow, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, vacant silver escutcheon, horn fore-end cap, original brass-mounted ramrod, and much original finish (some rust patination and minor pitting), Birmingham proof marks
69 cm. barrel

Footnotes

William Smart is recorded at 104 Albion Street, Cheltenham, in around 1829

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