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A Rare 18-Bore Flintlock Turn-Over Sporting Gun image 1
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Lot 331Ф,Y

A Rare 18-Bore Flintlock Turn-Over Sporting Gun
By Bunney, London, Circa 1775

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£8,000 - £10,000

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A Rare 18-Bore Flintlock Turn-Over Sporting Gun
By Bunney, London, Circa 1775

With two-stage re-browned barrels (possibly shortened) each with silver fore-sight, long octagonal breeches each signed along the top flat, border engraved pan-plates and steels, the latter each with roller bearing on the external steel-spring, breech-plates each engraved with a border of spheres, border engraved tang, back-action lock and cock all decorated with foliage, the lock signed within rocailles and foliage, figured full stock with three pairs of barrel-retaining bolts along one side, and moulded butt carved with a scallop shell behind the barrel tang, steel mounts engraved en suite with the lock and comprising bevelled side-plate and butt-plate, sprung trigger-guard engraved with a flower-head in a diamond-shaped panel on the bow and also forming the barrel-release, turned ramrod-pipes, border engraved vacant silver escutcheon, and ivory-tipped ramrod with iron worm (steel parts with minor wear and rust patination, Tower private proof marks
84.8 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Provenance
Holt's Norfolk and Hammersmith, 22 June 2006, lot 352

The maker is Joseph Bunney recorded working in Birmingham between 1765 and 1814. He is known to have marked his firearms 'London'

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