Product Details
AN ACTION UNIT FROM A BREECH-LOADING PUNT-GUN, UNSIGNED, IN A HOLLAND & HOLLAND LABELLED CASE, no visible serial number,
circa 1890, 15in. overall with 'duck-tailed' butt (age cracks present), the top inlet with a brass plate bearing a central striker-piece cocked via a lanyard (present), the unit fired by a further lanyard operated trigger-plate inlet below the grip, the front with steel breech-plug machined with locking shoulders and complete with its oiled canvas storage bag, an '0'-bore wad-punch and roll turn-over tool, a period 'Cooppal' punt powder tin (empty), a further empty black japanned tin (possibly for shot), a powder funnel, a combination tool, a leather shotgun pull-through wallet containing extra home-made weights for an interesting weighing balance set in a brass waterproof container with German trade label (one weight dated 1826) and a pair of punt-gun trunnion mounts, the unlined brass bound stained pine case with pinned label from a Holland & Holland hammerless gun and a further pinned label for Holland 28-bore gun serial no. 8345 (for 1884) and also including a wooden lid from a box of 'Cooppal Liliput' shot cartridges
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Estimate £1,200-1,600 € 1,332-1,775
Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament