Fine Modern & Antique Guns - December 2019 : Sale A1219 Lot 766
C.D. TANNER & SOHNE AN UNUSUAL 16-BORE DROP-DOWN UNDERLEVER DOUBLE-BARRELLED PINFIRE SPORTING GUN, serial no. 194,

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C.D. TANNER & SOHNE
AN UNUSUAL 16-BORE DROP-DOWN UNDERLEVER DOUBLE-BARRELLED PINFIRE SPORTING GUN, serial no. 194,
30in. damascus barrels (serial number on under rib only), the rib gold-inlaid in black type 'C.D. TANNER SOHNE HANNOVER', the underside of the barrels signed 'H. VINCENT', extractor broken and partly missing, light damage at fences, back-action lockplates, hammers (replacements) with repairs, elongated rounded bar action (no independent fore-end), drop down underlever with spring retention catch, the rear of the lever coupling with a small bar in the bifurcated rear lump, drop down sidelever operating a cam locking into the barrel loop, ornately scrolled triggerguard, the whole finely relief engraved with trailing leaf and vine motifs, surrounding ornate vignettes of hound, fowl, rabbit and fox, 14in. figured stock including engraved steel buttplate.



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Estimate £400-600

Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament