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







