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Lot 523

A 12-Bore Flintlock Sporting Rifle
By 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

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

Footnotes

Edward London is recorded at 51 London Wall between 1828 and 1866

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