Main Sale - September 2010 : Sale A1045 Lot 572
A CASED 16-BORE DOUBLE-BARRELLED PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN SIGNED GRIERSON

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A CASED 16-BORE DOUBLE-BARRELLED PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN SIGNED GRIERSON
circa 1810, converted from flintlock circa 1850, with re-browned 30in barrels, (top-rib pitted), scroll engraved breech, scroll and shell engraved top-tang, flat, slightly curved locks with fancy border and scroll engraving, signed 'GRIERSON'S IMPROVED PERCUSSION, BOND ST LONDON', finely scroll engraved hammers, walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist, engraved steel furniture (pitted), original ramrod (iron surfaces discoloured throughout) TOGETHER WITH a period mahogany guncase, compartmented and re-lined in blue baize, old 'Charles & H. Weston, Brighton' label re-attached in lid and including a cap-tin and a shot flask, the brass ring handle of case engraved 'J. J. TUFNELL ESQ. BROOMFIELD'
Estimate £400-600