Product Details
* WM. BURTINSHAW, LEEDS
A FINE 32-BORE PERCUSSION SINGLE-BARRELLED SPORTING-GUN OF HIGH GRADE, no visible serial number,
possibly for exhibition and made between 1846-61, with tapering round damascus barrels, short sighting rib and side ribs carved and engraved at breech, the top signed 'WM. BURTINSHAW, LEEDS' in script, twin engraved gold bands and engravings of dogs and rabbits also at breech, colour hardened top-tang engraved with scrolls and with carved and moulded sighting groove, border, scroll and gamescene engraved bar-action lock signed 'BURTINSHAW, LEEDS', the lock with engraved and applied white-metal frame around the bar, complex slab-sided and pierced scroll engraved hammer, highly figured walnut half-stock with stitch-bordered chequered panel at fore-end and plain panel at wrist (underside of butt with large period filled knot), blued and scroll engraved iron furniture (much finish remaining), white metal nose-cap, white metal monogrammed oval escutcheon with a pheasant seated in foliage above at wrist, faceted ramrod thimbles with rolled and moulded ends and complex escutcheons for the side-nail and barrel-key, complete with its tool-ended and partially chequered ebony ramrod
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Estimate £800-1,200