Product Details
B. COGSWELL, LONDON
A CASED 8-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED PIGEON-GUN, serial no. 3579,
originally circa 1860 and re-barrelled as a live pigeon gun by Cogswell & Harrison circa 1900, with blued steel 32in. barrels, the top-rib signed 'COGSWELL & HARRISON, 223 & 224 STRAND, LONDON', colour hardened border engraved breeches with platinum plugs, bead fore-sight, borderline and scroll engraved elongated top-tang, borderline and scroll engraved bar-action locks signed 'B. COGSWELL', (traces of colour to all), chequered walnut half-stock, the heel fitted with a lace-on leather recoil-pad, engraved iron furniture, two barrel keys and moulded plug blocking the original ramrod channel, together with a period oak guncase lined and compartmented in green baize and with hook closure, the inside of lid with parchment Cogswell & Harrison trade-label (distressed), old cracks to lid
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Estimate £900-1,200