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A Very Rare Cased 19-Bore Forsyth Patent Roller Primer Sporting Gun image 1
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Lot 255

A Very Rare Cased 19-Bore Forsyth Patent Roller Primer Sporting Gun
By Forsyth & Co., Patent Gun Maker's, London, No. 410, Circa 1811

23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £17,562.50 inc. premium

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A Very Rare Cased 19-Bore Forsyth Patent Roller Primer Sporting Gun
By Forsyth & Co., Patent Gun Maker's, London, No. 410, Circa 1811

With rebrowned twist barrel with silver fore-sight, signed along the top of the breech and with a short flat at the top and on each side, case-hardened patent breech with two gold lines, engraved serial numbered primer, border engraved tang decorated with a brace of pheasants amid foliage, signed case-hardened serial numbered flat bevelled lock decorated with starbursts and with gamebirds in landscapes at the stepped tail, striker decorated with foliage en suite, finely figured half-stock (minor old bruising) with chequered grip and silver fore-end cap, border engraved steel mounts comprising butt-plate (some pitting) decorated with a gundog and gamebird in a landscape on the heel tang, blued trigger-guard decorated with a similar scene on the bow, case-hardened trigger-plate with pineapple finial, vacant silver escutcheon and barrel-bolt escutcheons, and brass-mounted ramrod: in lined and fitted mahogany case (one compartment divider loose) with numerous accessories including brass-mounted powder-flask (priming-flask missing), leather shot-belt, and circular boxes, one for original grease, the interior of the lid with large illustrated trade label of second design (for 1809-11) between two smaller labels relating respectively to Priming Powder and Grease, the exterior (old splits, one along the back with three contemporary brass securing straps) with flush-fitting brass carrying handle centred on a vacant circular escutcheon, London proof marks
74.5 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Provenance
H.H. Harrod
W. Keith Neal Collection, C177. Acquired from the above in 1938
Christie's London, Fine Antique Firearms from the W. Keith Neal Collection, 9 November 2000, lot 20

Exhibited
The Game Fair, Blenheim Palace, 28-30 July 2000

Literature:
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Forsyth & Co.: Patent Gunmakers 1806-1852,, 1969, pp. 4-6, 37, pls. 13, 14, 16, 17, 57, 58, 78, and colour 2
D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers, Forsyth & Co.: Patent Gunmakers, 1995, pp. 17, 18, 37, pls. 6, 7, 17d, 48a-b, 59, and colour pl. III

A typewritten note signed by the late owner and formerly with the lot describes this as 'the most perfect and complete set of an original Forsyth Gun in existence...'

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