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An 18-Bore (.600) Flintlock Sporting Rifle By D. Egg, London, Circa 1790
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £765 inc. premium
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An 18-Bore (.600) Flintlock Sporting Rifle
By D. Egg, London, Circa 1790
By D. Egg, London, Circa 1790
With rebrowned twist slightly swamped octagonal leaf-sighted barrel signed along the top flat at the breech and rifled with eight spiral grooves, gold-lined touch-hole, border engraved tang decorated with a Britannia shield, drum and foliage, associated border engraved flat bevelled lock (cock a working replacement, top of steel chipped) signed on a scroll and decorated with foliage, engraved safety-catch, figured full stock (fore-stock partly replaced and split along the ramrod-channel) with grip cut with characteristic chequering and raised cheek-piece, border engraved steel mounts comprising butt-plate with a martial trophy on the heel tang, spur trigger-guard in the French taste decorated en suite on the bow and with foliate engraved finial, a pineapple terminal behind the spur, turned ramrod-pipes, and later brass-mounted ramrod, London proof marks
71.5 cm. barrel
71.5 cm. barrel
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