Product Details
A 12-BORE FLINTLOCK SINGLE-BARRELLED SPORTING-GUN SIGNED 'BATES', no visible serial number,
circa 1775, with 39 3/4in. swamped iron barrel (corroded through 7in. back from muzzle), applied boat shaped fore-sight, private proofs, engraved iron top-tang, borderline engraved radiused lock signed 'BATES' within a banner below the pane (rubbed, barely legible), semi rain-proof pan, broad sliding safe behind the swan-necked cock, replacement frizzen spring, walnut handrail full-stock, carved apron around the top-tang, engraved brass furniture including rococo escutcheon to wrist and long-spurred heel-plate, complex pierced and carved sideplate, three turned and moulded ramrod thimbles and replacement ramrod (old repairs and small losses to fore-end edges)
Provenance: Previously sold Bonhams, Lot 296, 28th April 1999.
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Estimate £400-600