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Lot 450

A Cased Scottish 17-Bore Brass-Mounted Percussion Sporting Gun
By George Thomson, Maker In Ordinary To His Majesty, Edinburgh, No. 264, Circa 1830

26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Cased Scottish 17-Bore Brass-Mounted Percussion Sporting Gun
By George Thomson, Maker In Ordinary To His Majesty, Edinburgh, No. 264, Circa 1830

With rebrowned twist sighted barrels signed along the rib in gothic script, foliate engraved case-hardened breeches, tang and signed border engraved back-action locks, foliate engraved dolphin hammers, highly figured half-stock with chequered grip, border engraved reblued steel mounts comprising butt-plate decorated with foliage and a gundog in a landscape on the heel tang, trigger-guard decorated with foliage, trigger-plate finial en suite, vacant silver escutcheon, and original brass-tipped ramrod: in contemporary lined and fitted brass-mounted mahogany case, the exterior of the lid (lining replaced) with circular vacant brass escutcheon centred on a flush-fitting brass carrying handle, London proof marks
75.5 cm. barrels

Footnotes

George Thomson is recorded in Edinburgh between 1818 and 1832

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