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Lot 523
A 12-Bore Flintlock Sporting RifleBy E. London, Rifle Maker, 51 London Wall, London, No. 178, Circa 1830
26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£3,000 - £4,000
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A 12-Bore Flintlock Sporting Rifle
By E. London, Rifle Maker, 51 London Wall, London, No. 178, Circa 1830
By E. London, Rifle Maker, 51 London Wall, London, No. 178, Circa 1830
With earlier rebrowned swamped leaf-sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves and signed in full in gothic script along the top flat at the breech, patent breech engraved with a skull and crossed bones on the grooved top flat and with owner's crest on the left, gold lines and platinum-lined touch-hole, grooved border engraved tang decorated with a tiger's mask above the retaining screw, border engraved flat bevelled detented lock signed in gothic script and engraved with foliage at the stepped tail, engraved cock, gold-lined rainproof pan, and roller, figured full stock (minor bruising) with chequered grip, border engraved brass mounts comprising hinged rectangular patch-box cover with spring catch and decorated with a bear in a landscape, butt-plate with a stag in a landscape on the heel tang, trigger-guard with pineapple-shaped finial and decorated with a prone stag in a landscape on the bow, vacant white-metal escutcheon and barrel-bolt escutcheons, turned brass ramrod-pipes, sling loops (one replaced), and stirrup ramrod, London proof marks
78.8 cm. barrel
78.8 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Edward London is recorded at 51 London Wall between 1828 and 1866








