Null Wrought iron well top

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Wrought iron well top

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Wrought iron well top

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Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

FORSYTH & CO., LONDON A 14-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING GUN, serial no. 4059, circa 1835, with well rebrowned 29 1/2in. barrels, the raised top-rib signed 'FORSYTH & CO PATENT GUN MAKERS, LONDON', the underside of breech with serial number and barrel forger's mark 'T.P' (for Thomas Parkin of 5 Meard's Court, Soho), moulded nipple-wells, engraved platinum vented plugs, borderline and scroll engraved top-tang extending to tip of comb also featuring a game bird and inlet with a gold rectangular escutcheon engraved 'W.P', borderline, scroll and gamescene engraved radiused back-action locks flaring outwards at the front and signed 'FORSYTH & CO PATENT' below the engraved dolphin headed hammers, moulded hammer breast stops, walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist, iron furniture (lightly rubbed of engraved detail) including ramrod throat extending for the full length of the fore-end and working replacement brass mounted ramrod.

Estim. 3 000 - 5 000 EUR

JOHN MANTON, LONDON A CASED PAIR OF 46-BORE PERCUSSION SCRATCH-RIFLED TARGET PISTOLS OF DUELLING STYLE, serial numbered 10913, for between 1840-44, with octagonal 10in. scratch-rifled barrels signed in script 'JOHN MANTON & SON DOVER STREET LONDON', scroll engraved colour hardened breech-blocks with hexagonal based nipples, applied fore-sights, shallow standing notch rear-sights to the front of the engraved top-tangs, borderline and scroll engraved colour hardened locks with extensions above moulding to the sides of the standing breech and signed 'JOHN MANTON & SON PATENT', slab-sided hammers with dolphin engraved noses mirroring the nipple-wells and en-suite engraving, bolted safes, walnut half-stocks with chequered bag-shaped grips, blued and engraved iron furniture including domed butt-caps, single set triggers, white metal escutcheons to wrists engraved with a hippocampus below a crown, escutcheoned barrel keys, horn fore-end tips and mahogany ramrods, traces of finish remaining and in their maker's mahogany case lined and compartmented in green baize, good No.6 Dover Street trade label inside lid and complete with a three-way flask, matching number scissors ball mould, loading rod, turn-screw, cap-tin and a wad-punch, the same armorial as the pistols appearing on the lid escutcheon of case.

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