Beautiful 16-gauge two-shot extractor percussion shotgun. Round barrels in table, blued (re-colored). Checkered band. Key opening on horn underside. Rocker finely engraved with foliate scrolls. Engraved breech tail. Chased back plates en suite, enriched with reserves decorated with pheasants and partridges, enhanced with a gold fillet. Engraved and chased dogs. Trigger guard featuring a hunter, with carved horn tail. Superb cheek stock in light walnut, carved with foliage, a hunter and his dog in undergrowth and animals, ducks, hares. Squared shaft. B.E. circa 1850-1860

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