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A FINE CASED 15-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING GUN SIGNED ALEXANDER WILSON, LONDON, no visible serial number, circa 1818 and converted from flintlock, with re-browned 26 1/2in. twist barrels, the top-rib signed 'ALEXr. WILSON SHERRARD ST'T LONDON', bead fore-sight, twin platinum lines and vented plugs at breech, fully fenced nipples, border and scroll engraved top-tang, borderline engraved bar-action locks signed 'ALEXr WILSON SHERRARD ST'T LONDON' (traces of colour) and further engraved with a coiled feathered serpent, a shell and scrolls, slab-sided dolphin-headed hammers, each also engraved with a coiled feathered serpent, walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist and with carved droppers behind the locks, rectangular clipped-corner escutcheon to top of wrist, iron heel-plate with engraved acanthus foliage around the screws and along the top-spur, border, shell and acanthus scroll engraved trigger-guard bow and finial with raised scrolled pistol-grip tang further engraved with a coiled feathered serpent, engraved iron ramrod throat, plain thimbles and brass mounted ebony ramrod, in a later leather guncase compartmented and lined in red baize, a reproduction Alexander Wilson trade label inside lid and with cross-straps to outer.

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A FINE CASED 15-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING GUN SIGNED ALEXANDER WILSON, LONDON, no visible serial number, circa 1818 and converted from flintlock, with re-browned 26 1/2in. twist barrels, the top-rib signed 'ALEXr. WILSON SHERRARD ST'T LONDON', bead fore-sight, twin platinum lines and vented plugs at breech, fully fenced nipples, border and scroll engraved top-tang, borderline engraved bar-action locks signed 'ALEXr WILSON SHERRARD ST'T LONDON' (traces of colour) and further engraved with a coiled feathered serpent, a shell and scrolls, slab-sided dolphin-headed hammers, each also engraved with a coiled feathered serpent, walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist and with carved droppers behind the locks, rectangular clipped-corner escutcheon to top of wrist, iron heel-plate with engraved acanthus foliage around the screws and along the top-spur, border, shell and acanthus scroll engraved trigger-guard bow and finial with raised scrolled pistol-grip tang further engraved with a coiled feathered serpent, engraved iron ramrod throat, plain thimbles and brass mounted ebony ramrod, in a later leather guncase compartmented and lined in red baize, a reproduction Alexander Wilson trade label inside lid and with cross-straps to outer.

Estimate 1 500 - 2 000 GBP
Starting price 1 500 GBP

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For sale on Monday 29 Jul - 09:00 (BST)
wolferton-norfolk, United Kingdom
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