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Lot 274

A 12-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
The Lock And Barrel By Hunt, London, Circa 1775

23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £318.75 inc. premium

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A 12-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
The Lock And Barrel By Hunt, London, Circa 1775

With long russet sighted barrel with faint traces of signature along the top flat at the breech and stamped with later Indian arsenal mark along the left side, gold-lined touch-hole, grooved tang engraved with foliage, border engraved flat bevelled lock signed on a foliated scroll, foliate engraved cock, and steel (refaced) with roller acting against the steel-spring, later figured full stock (fore-stock mostly replaced) with chequered grip, the butt incorporating the original pierced and engraved silver butt-mount, plain steel trigger-guard with scrolled tang and pineapple-shaped finial, shield-shaped vacant silver escutcheon, turned ramrod-pipes (three replaced), and later horn-tipped wooden ramrod, Tower private proof marks
135.5 cm. barrel

Footnotes

The lock and barrel probably by Joseph Hunt recorded between 1767 and 1774

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