Fine Modern & Antique Guns - September 2015 : Sale A0915 Lot 440
BOUTET, PARIS A 16-BORE FLINTLOCK DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING-GUN, serial no. 299,

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BOUTET, PARIS
A 16-BORE FLINTLOCK DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING-GUN, serial no. 299,
circa 1810, with re-browned 31 1/2in. barrels, the top of the left barrel signed in gold 'BOUTET', the right 'A' VERSAILLES', long silver bead fore-sight set on a gold ground, the top-rib at breech-end inlaid in gold with the serial number, three gold lines at breech, plain top-tang with 'eared' sighting groove, plain flat locks signed 'BOUTET' with the pointed tails curving in at the tips, gold lined pans, rollers to the frizzen-springs, walnut semi pistol-gripped half-stock chequered at the wrist (small inlet repairs behind locks), applied leather pad to the raised cheek-piece, shaped iron heel-plate, pillar-fronted trigger-guard bow and turned ramrod thimbles, ramrod replaced, the whole re-finished

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Estimate £2,000-2,500