Fine Modern & Antique Guns - December 2015 : Sale A1215 Lot 539
A.W. EDEL, LEIPZIG A 10-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED FOWLING-PIECE, no visible serial number,

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* A.W. EDEL, LEIPZIG
A 10-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED FOWLING-PIECE, no visible serial number,
circa 1860, with browned ribbon-twist 34 1/2in. barrels, the top-rib in rose damascus and signed in gold 'A.W. EDEL IN LEIPZIG', bead fore-sight, silver lines and engraving at breech, engraved long top-tang, borderline and game scene engraved back action locks (traces of gilding), scroll engraved hammers with swinging safes to the front, walnut half-stock carved with scrolls at the wrist running into a mask at the pommel, raised cheek-piece with a deeply carved panel of scrolls behind, engraved iron heel-plate and trigger-guard, moulded horn trigger-guard tang cover, engraved iron ramrod throat and replacement wood ramrod

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Estimate £1,000-1,500