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Lot 453

A Rare Cased 16-Bore D.B. Percussion Sporting Gun For 'Imperial Caps'
By Sam.L & C. Smith, Prince's Street, Leicester Square, London, No. 5224 For 1843

26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Cased 16-Bore D.B. Percussion Sporting Gun For 'Imperial Caps'
By Sam.L & C. Smith, Prince's Street, Leicester Square, London, No. 5224 For 1843

With rebrowned sighted barrels of decorative twist pattern signed in full in script along the rib and with silver fore-sight, border engraved patent breeches engraved 'Smith's Patent' within a platinum-lined rectangle at the centre and each with platinum plug, foliate engraved tang involving a pheasant in a landscape, serial numbered border engraved flat locks each signed in full and decorated with scrolling foliage, hammers en suite and each with detachable nose, figured half-stock with chequered grip (escutcheon missing), border engraved steel mounts decorated with foliage and comprising serial numbered butt-plate, trigger-guard and trigger-plate with pineapple-shaped finial, rear ramrod-pipe en suite, and brass-mounted ramrod: in its fitted oak case lined in dark blue baize with accessories including embossed powder-flask, leather shot-flask, nipple-wrench for Smith's Patent 'Imperial' caps, and rare hammer-nose spanner, the exterior of the lid with circular brass escutcheon engraved with owner's initials 'F.S.S.' in gothic letters and centred on a flush-fitting carrying handle, London proof marks
73.5 cm. barrels

Footnotes

For a similar example formerly in the D.H.L. Back Collection and sold in these Rooms see Fine Antique Arms and Armour..., 24 November 2010, Lot 415

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