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An Unusual French 18-Bore Flintlock D.B. Carbine image 1
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Lot 201

An Unusual French 18-Bore Flintlock D.B. Carbine
Early 19th Century

30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An Unusual French 18-Bore Flintlock D.B. Carbine
Early 19th Century

Adapted from a sporting gun, with shortened English barrels indistinctly signed along the rib and now fitted with a spring bayonet above, the pierced leaf-shaped blade engraved with foliage on one side and inscribed 'Happy Is He That Escapes Me' on the other, tang with bayonet-catch stamped with 'GR' crowned mark above 'Searle', rounded locks (steels refaced), one retaining traces of maker's signature, figured full stock (reduced, worn, damaged and chipped) carved with foliage behind the barrel tang (repairs), butt with ovoidal piercing bordered by punched decoration including 'GR', engraved steel butt-plate and trigger-guard each with urn-shaped finial, and steel ramrod with worm (steel parts pitted)
21.8 cm. barrels

Footnotes

A James Sturman Searles is recorded as a 'Gunmaker & Spring Gun Maker' at 115 Aldersgate Street between 1792 and 1796, and at 6 Little Alie Street between 1799 and 1824

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