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Lot 233

A 10-Bore Percussion Sporting Gun
By T.J. Mortimer, Maker To His Majesty, St. James's St., London, No. 4314, Circa 1830

17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A 10-Bore Percussion Sporting Gun
By T.J. Mortimer, Maker To His Majesty, St. James's St., London, No. 4314, Circa 1830

With re-browned twist three-stage sighted barrel, octagonal breech (some bruising and marks) becoming polygonal and signed along the top flat, border engraved case-hardened breech decorated with scrolling foliage and with platinum plug, tang engraved with foliage inhabited by a game bird, signed border engraved flat lock, dolphin hammer and blued mounts all decorated en suite, the latter comprising butt-plate and trigger-guard, trigger-plate with foliate engraved pineapple-shaped finial, lacquered figured half-stock with chequered grip (chipped in front of the lock), shaped vacant silver escutcheon and barrel-bolt escutcheons, silver fore-end cap, and brass-tipped ramrod (some rust patination in places), London proof marks
81 cm. barrel

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Provenance
The Dr. T.J. Mortimer Collection

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