With rebrowned twist sighted barrels signed in gold capitals along the rib, engraved case-hardened breeches each with large platinum plug and decorated with a gamebird in a landscape between pairs of gold lines on the rib between, border engraved case-hardened tang decorated with symmetrical scrolling foliage, signed border engraved case-hardened flat locks each decorated with scrolling foliage and differing landscape scenes inhabited by gundogs and gamebirds, case-hardened dolphin hammers decorated with foliage en suite and each inhabited by a pheasant, the internal working parts retaining their burnished finish, lacquered highly figured half-stock (minor loss of lacquer) with chequered grip, border engraved blued steel mounts decorated with foliage en suite with the locks and comprising butt-plate (minor loss of finish) with a seated gundog and a gamebird hanging from a branch in a landscape on the heel tang, trigger-guard with raised looped tang and decorated with a spaniel flushing a woodcock in a landscape within a rectangle on the bow, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, silver escutcheon engraved with owner's crest of a blood royal, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, original white-metal mounted ramrod with threaded cap over the worm, and in fine condition retaining most of its original finish (sling mounts missing), London proof marks
74 cm. barrels