With barrel retaining some blueing and with raised sighting rib over most of its length, silver fore-sight centred on chiselled symmetrical foliage involving a shell on each side and against finely punched gilt grounds, the breech section chiselled in relief with a landscape scene involving Meleager armed with a quiver and presenting the boar's head to the seated figure of Atalanta, a female profile bust within a crowned palm wreath above surmounted by drapery issuing from a satyr's mask, all within symmetrical arrangements of strapwork and foliage against finely punched gilt grounds, breech and bolster, tang and dolphin hammer all decorated en suite, rounded lock chiselled with a sportsman shooting a hare in a landscape inhabited by wildfowl on a lake, all within a scalloped border and against finely punched gilt grounds, moulded figured full stock (replaced at the muzzle) carved in relief with foliage and involving a grotesque mask behind the barrel tang, full mounts cast and chased in low relief against finely punched gilt grounds and comprising shaped side-plate with gundogs and game in a wooded landscape, crowned escutcheon with a bust of Diana framed by strapwork and crossed palms, butt-plate with the figure of Diana in a landscape surmounted by a hound's mask, a female mask, a female portrait bust against a crossed bow and quiver, and a grotesque mask against a shell, drapery issuing from its mouth, all along the heel tang within foliate borders, the plate with a panel of symmetrical foliage and shells en suite, crowned owner's coat-of-arms above probably engraved at the time of conversion, and old armoury number 'No. 274' below, trigger-guard and rear ramrod-terminal en suite, the former with a hound and fallen boar in a wooden landscape on the bow, baluster ramrod-pipes, replacement dark horn fore-end cap, and contemporary ramrod with horn tip
96 cm. barrel