Product Details
JOSEPH HARKOM, EDINBURGH
A CASED 16-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING RIFLE, serial no. 364,
circa 1840, with re-browned damascus 30in. barrels, the broad matted top-rib signed 'JOSEPH HARKOM EDINBURGH', dove-tailed bead fore-sight, rear-sight with five folding leaves, lion's head engraved at breech-end and farsi inscription to top of left hand barrel, patent breeches with platinum plugs, fully scroll-engraved top-tang, flat bar-action border engraved locks with game scenes of stags and deer, signed 'HARKOM', sliding safes forwards of the scroll-engraved hammers, chequered walnut half-stock with gold shield-shaped escutcheon at wrist, chequered iron heel-plate, trigger-guard engraved en-suite with the locks, chequered pistol-grip tang and original ramrod (tip missing) TOGETHER WITH its original brass-cornered oak two-tier storage case, brass flush-fitting ring handle to the lid with a brass escutcheon engraved 'MR J.J. ECKFORD, 6TH REGT BENGAL N I', compartmented and lined in green baize with provision for a full compliment of accessories (few remaining) and also compartmented to accommodate another similar rifle or shotgun and a pair of percussion pistols (missing), the inner lid bearing a 'Harkom' trade label
Estimate £1,400-1,800