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A Fine And Rare Cased 8-Bore Tube-Lock Silver-Mounted D.B. Wildfowling Gun image 1
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Lot 325Y

A Fine And Rare Cased 8-Bore Tube-Lock Silver-Mounted D.B. Wildfowling Gun
By R. Marjoram, Wickham Market, Birmingham Silver Hallmarks For 1845, Maker's Mark Of Edward Parsons

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £7,562.50 inc. premium

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A Fine And Rare Cased 8-Bore Tube-Lock Silver-Mounted D.B. Wildfowling Gun
By R. Marjoram, Wickham Market, Birmingham Silver Hallmarks For 1845, Maker's Mark Of Edward Parsons

With heavy browned twist sighted barrels signed in full in gold along the hollowed rib at the breech, case-hardened recessed breeches engraved with a duck in flight between two gold lines and each with platinum-lined vent, broad case-hardened tang engraved with scrolling foliage, signed case-hardened border engraved locks decorated with a gundog and duck in a landscape on one tail, and with a prone gundog and gamebird on the other, blued sprung tube-retainers, figured half-stock with chequered grip, engraved silver mounts comprising trigger-guard decorated with two gundogs and a pheasant on the bow, silver trigger-plate with pineapple finial, rear ramrod-pipe en suite, blued butt-plate engraved with scrolling foliage on the tang, vacant gold escutcheon, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, original silver-mounted ebony ramrod, and much original finish: in original white-metal mounted fitted mahogany case lined in blue velvet with accessories including Dixon fluted powder-flask and original four-piece cleaning rod, the exterior of the lid with flush-fitting white-metal carrying handle, Birmingham proof marks
105.5 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Provenance
Christie's South Kensington, Fine Antique Arms And Armour, 20 September 1989, lot 122
Sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms & Armour, 14 April 2005, lot 304

Robert Marjoram is recorded at Wickham Market, Suffolk between 1838 and 1844

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