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A Liège 18-Bore Percussion D.B. Sporting Gun, And A Belgian Officer's SwordThe First Signed Moreau Le Jeune, Both 19th Century
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £510 inc. premium
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A Liège 18-Bore Percussion D.B. Sporting Gun, And A Belgian Officer's Sword
The First Signed Moreau Le Jeune, Both 19th Century
The First Signed Moreau Le Jeune, Both 19th Century
The first with sighted barrels of alternate finely twist and damascus steel, foliate engraved breeches, tang, signed flat locks and mounts (trigger-guard with minor old repair), figured half-stock carved with a repeated design of overlapping leaves at the grip and on the fore-end, the former with a stag's head in low relief, branches of oak in its mouth, cheek-piece carved with a flower-head at the rear, and original ramrod with white staghorn tip (steel parts with some light pitting, one ramrod-pipe lose), Liège proof; the second of regulation pattern, with curved fullered nickel-plated blade etched 'Pour le Roi el la Patrie' between symmetrical foliage on one side, the ricasso engraved 'Louis Bourgeois Sergent armourier Tournai', brass hilt including guard cast and pierced with foliage, and ribbed horn grip (wire binding incomplete), in its brass-mounted leather scabbard with suspension ring; together with a mainspring clamp, and a reproduction combined wheel-lock spanner and turnscrew (4)
81.3 cm. barrels and 86.5 cm. blade
81.3 cm. barrels and 86.5 cm. blade
Footnotes
Tournai was the Walloon arms manufactory in Belgium








