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Lot 230

A 16-Bore Tubelock D.B. Sporting Gun
By Alden & Smith From J. Manton's, London, No. 189, Circa 1826-29

24 May 2023, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A 16-Bore Tubelock D.B. Sporting Gun
By Alden & Smith From J. Manton's, London, No. 189, Circa 1826-29

With rebrowned twist sighted barrels signed along the damascus twist rib (signature refreshed), recessed border engraved patent breeches decorated with a gundog's head between and each with platinum lines and platinum-lined touch-hole, tang engraved with foliate scrollwork, signed border engraved flat locks each decorated with foliage and with a pheasant in a landscape, foliate engraved hammers and tube-retainers, the latter each acting against a spring roller, lacquered highly figured half-stock with chequered grip and velvet-covered cheek-pad (worn and slightly damaged), border engraved steel mounts including serial numbered trigger-guard decorated with pheasants in a landscape on the bow, trigger-plate engraved with a scallop shell on the pineapple-shaped finial, rear ramrod-pipe en suite, silver escutcheon engraved with owner's crest, and brass-mounted ramrod (some wear and pitting), London proof marks
74.5 cm. barrels

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Provenance
Ex Peter Bedford Collection

Robert Alden and Thomas Smith were at 9 Princes Court, Westminster between 1826 and 1829, and 55 Parliament Street between 1829 and 1835

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