Product Details
TYE, SPALDING
A BEHEMOTHIC 1 1/4in. PERCUSSION BANK OR WALL-GUN, no visible serial number,
circa 1835, with slightly swamped twist-iron 54 1/4in barrel, bead-fore-sight, short rear-sighting rib to the breech-end signed 'TYE, SPALDING' within an oval borderline engraved cartouche, scrolled percussion fence, massive oversized plain lockplate possibly originally from a flintlock, carved hammer, the head in the form of a sea-serpent, oversized plain walnut half-stock, iron spurred heel-plate, large trigger-guard tang and bow terminating in a pineapple finial and substantial fore-end mounted iron loop for a pintle mount, all exposed iron surfaces pitted, woodwork with some worm, weight approximately 70lbs.
Provenance: The vendor has kindly informed us that he first admired this shotgun when it formed part of the ornamentation of the Ruddy Duck Public House in Peakirk, Cambridgeshire and subsequently bought it from the landlord, Malcolm Moyer.
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Estimate £2,000-3,000