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Lot 220
A Cased 18-Bore Percussion Sporting RifleMid-19th Century
17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £600 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Cased 18-Bore Percussion Sporting Rifle
Mid-19th Century
Mid-19th Century
With russet twist octagonal sighted multi-groove rifled barrel (some bruising along one angle) engraved 'Kilmarnock' on the top flat at the breech, breech with gold and platinum lines, foliate engraved tang surmounted by a tiger's mask, indistinctly signed border engraved flat lock decorated with scrolling foliage and a tiger, foliate engraved dolphin hammer, figured half-stock (bruised) with chequered grip, steel mounts including butt-plate engraved en suite with the barrel tang, scroll trigger-guard with pineapple finial, set trigger, dark horn fore-end cap, vacant silver escutcheon, and later brass-mounted ramrod (worn and pitted overall): in contemporary partly re-lined and re-fitted mahogany case with some accessories including G.&J.W. Hawksley powder-flask (cut-off spring replaced) with body covered in black pigskin (dented, seam partly open) and applied shield-shaped white-metal escutcheon on one side, and steel bullet mould, the exterior of the lid with flush-fitting brass carrying handle centred on a vacant circular brass escutcheon, Birmingham proof marks
70.5 cm.
70.5 cm.








