Product Details
* A SCARCE 22-BORE PERCUSSION TAKE-DOWN SINGLE-BARRELLED SPORTING-GUN, UNSIGNED, no visible serial number,
continental, probably Belgian or German circa 1745 with later conversion to percussion from flint, 35 1/4 octagonal to sixteen-sided to round barrel originally detaching at the end of the octagonal section but now frozen, hooked breech, plain top-tang with raised sighting groove, plain slightly curved flat lock with pointed tail and retaining remnants of the pan, walnut half-stock with detachable butt-stock joining via a bowtie shaped keyway at the centre of the wrist (some age cracks to wood), hollow butt with trapdoor access at heel-plate, the trapdoor released via a button disguised as a screw in the heel-plate spur, iron furniture including pillar fronted trigger-guard bow, two white metal ramrod thimbles, replacement ramrod and fitted with a later leather sling
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Estimate £250-350