Null A GOLD PLATED 1/2 HUNTER AND FULL HUNTER,

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A GOLD PLATED 1/2 HUNTER AND FULL HUNTER,

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A GOLD PLATED 1/2 HUNTER AND FULL HUNTER,

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A 14-BORE FLINTLOCK SINGLE-BARRELLED SPORTING GUN SIGNED I. FREETH, no visible serial number, circa 1770, with round slightly swamped 35 3/4in. iron barrel, the breech slightly flattened and engraved with a needle terminating in a tear-drop, 'I.F.' maker's mark, hooked breech with deep sighting groove to the engraved top-tang, flat bevel-edged lock engraved with borders, scroll engraving to the pointed tail and signed 'I. FREETH' below the shallow pan, swan-necked cock, bridled roller frizzen, banana-shaped hand-rail half-stock (cut back from full) inlaid with wire decoration around the top-tang, broad brass heel-plate engraved with a musical trophy to the spur and a moulded rococo escutcheon to the wrist (wrist with old crack and repair), moulded and pierced sideplate featuring hunters with hanging game, moulded brass nose-cap, applied brass ramrod pipes and iron ramrod.

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A GERMAN 120-BORE WHEELOCK BIRDING RIFLE SIGNED C.S. LUDWIG, HOHENELB, no visible serial number, circa 1690, with swamped octagonal 33 1/2in. barrel 'in the white', the top-flat signed 'C S LVDVVIG HOHEN ELB', deeply struck 'C.L.' oval maker's mark filled with yellow metal, dove-tailed fore-sight, tunnel rear-sight, squared solid top-tang fastened from below, flat, complex-shaped lockplate with engraved shallow domed and framed external wheel, the plate engraved with a scene of hunters in period dress running behind hounds (some frosting and cleaning), automatic pan, carved and engraved pyrite holder with ring top and carved spring, walnut angular full-stock with swept flaring cheek-piece inlaid with an oval bone plaque engraved with a recumbent stag, broad relief-carved band forwards of the bone heel-plate, further engraved bone escutcheons to both sidenails, iron trigger guard bow with finger-grooves, plain trigger with hogs-bristle set, moulded fore-end with chip-carved border to upper edges and engraved bone tip, complete with a probable replacement iron ramrod, wood with some old working repairs and filled worm.

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