A 12-BORE PERCUSSION SINGLE-BARRELLED SPORTING GUN SIGNED WALLACE & CO., EDINBURGH, no visible serial number, circa 1840, with 29 1/2in. well rebrowned octagonal to sixteen-sided to round barrel signed 'WALLACE & CO., EDINBURGH', the breech with single inlaid platinum line, the tang, back-action lock and trigger guard with border and scroll engraving, the lock signed 'WALLACE & CO.' around the base of the hammer, pineapple finial, iron mounts including butt-plate with scroll engraving to spur (rubbed), walnut half-stock with Forsyth-style chequered wrist, iron barrel-bolt escutcheons, white-metal fore-end tip and worm-ended brass-tipped ramrod.

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