Product Details
HOLMES, LIVERPOOL
A 14-BORE PERCUSSION SINGLE-BARRELLED SPORTING-GUN, no visible serial number,
circa 1840, with rebrowned slightly shortened octagonal to sixteen-sided to round 30 3/4in. barrel, moulded girdle band, the grooved top-flat at breech with renewed marking 'LIVERPOOL', bead fore-sight, twin platinum and gold bands at breech-end, engraved snail, borderline and scroll engraved long top-tang featuring a depiction of a wading bird within an oval, back-action lock with border, scroll and gamescene engraving and signed along the top-edge 'HOLMES', engraved dolphin headed hammer, stripey maple half-stock chequered at the wrist (worn smooth), raised cheek-piece with a central clipped corner vacant rectangular escutcheon, iron furniture including raised lower tang and probable original brass-mounted ramrod
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Estimate £500-700