Fine Modern & Antique Arms - July 2022 : Sale A0722 Lot 411
A 20-BORE FLINTLOCK DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING-GUN SIGNED SPENCER, no visible serial number,

Product Details

A 20-BORE FLINTLOCK DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING-GUN SIGNED SPENCER, no visible serial number,
circa 1800, with rebrowned twist 30in. barrels (some external light pitting), gold lines to breech-blocks with platinum lined vents, shallow sighting groove to the engraved top-tang, borderline engraved flat locks signed 'SPENCER' below the rainproof pans and with small engraved gamescenes just forwards of the stepped tails, both frizzens re-faced, one cock a competent working replacement, walnut half-stock with chequered wrist (smoothed), iron furniture, inlet repair to fore-end below barrel key aperture (barrel key replaced) and period ebony brass mounted ramrod

Provenance: This shotgun is almost certainly the work of the Whittall Street Spencers of Birmingham.



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Estimate £1,200-1,600