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Lot 238
A Fine Cased 14-Bore Percussion Sporting Gun With Left-Hand LockBy R. Watmough, 13 Blackfriars St., Manchester, Circa 1860
17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,375 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Fine Cased 14-Bore Percussion Sporting Gun With Left-Hand Lock
By R. Watmough, 13 Blackfriars St., Manchester, Circa 1860
By R. Watmough, 13 Blackfriars St., Manchester, Circa 1860
With browned twist sighted barrel (some surface rust patination, one ramrod-pipe detached) signed in full along the breech, border engraved breech with platinum plug and decorated with a pheasant on the top flat, foliate scroll engraved case-hardened tang, signed border engraved case-hardened flat lock decorated with a gun dog flushing a snipe and with a pair of partridges in a landscape on the tail, all within foliate scrollwork, hammer engraved with foliate scrollwork inhabited by an eagle and a serpent, highly figured half-stock with chequered grip and dark horn fore-end cap, border engraved blued steel mounts decorated with foliate scrollwork and comprising butt-plate decorated with a pair of blackcock in a landscape on the heel tang, trigger-guard with a spaniel flushing a pheasant, case-hardened trigger-plate with pineapple finial, shield-shaped vacant silver escutcheon, original brass-mounted ramrod, and most of its original finish: in original lined and fitted brass-mounted mahogany case with powder-flask, the copper body (dented) embossed with reeding, leather shot-flask and pewter oil bottle, the inside of the lid with maker's illustrated trade label (minor damage), the exterior with circular vacant brass escutcheon, Birmingham proof marks
78.2 cm. barrel
78.2 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Robert Watmough is recorded in Manchester, Lancashire, between 1854 and 1869








