Product Details
A 12-BORE PINFIRE WESTLEY RICHARDS BAR-IN-WOOD HAMMER SHOTGUN, serial no. 11226, circa 1871, with 26in. damascus barrels, the top-rib with traces only of signature, scroll engraved standing breech marked 'WESTLEY RICHARDS PATENT 1107', percussion fences, borderline and scroll engraved bar-action locks signed 'WESTLEY RICHARDS' with re-blacked dolphin headed scroll engraved hammers, the top-lever marked 'WESTLEY RICHARDS PATENT' and featuring a chequered thumb-piece, walnut chequered straight hand stock (cracked through and repaired at hand), iron heel-plate, scroll engraved furniture, chequered walnut splinter fore-end with 'crab-claw' joint, shaped horn tip, re-finished throughout and with fine shallow pin-prick pitting
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Estimate £300-500
Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament