Product Details
GEORGE & JOHN DEANE, LONDON
A FINE CASED 11-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING GUN, serial no. 696,
circa 1845, with browned damascus 29in. barrels, the sunken top-rib signed 'GEORGE & JOHN DEANE, (MAKERS TO H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT) No. 30 KING WILLIAM STREET LONDON BRIDGE', bead fore-sight, border engraved colour-hardened breech blocks with platinum vents, colour hardened border and scroll engraved bar-action locks signed 'GEORGE & JOHN DEANE' featuring central engravings of hunting dogs, fully scroll engraved top-tang, figured walnut chequered straight-hand half-stock with a gold shield-shaped escutcheon to the wrist, blued iron heel-plate with scroll engraved heel-spur also featuring a hunting dog, blued scroll-engraved trigger-guard tang and finial, a further hunting dog engraved to the bow, complete with its original wood ramrod, the whole retaining much original finish and colour throughout and TOGETHER WITH a mahogany 'DEANE & SON' storage case almost certainly original to this gun, with rounded brass corners, ring handle to lid and folding brass handle to one end, the interior compartmented and lined in checkerboard embossed faux leather with further embossed borderlines and floral corners to the compartment lids, the lid interior with a raised embossed rococco scrolled crest surmounted by a Prince's crown and incorporating the Royal crests of the Royal Family and England the centre with a 'DEANE & SON' trade label above a crossed sword and sceptre, the shaped lidded interior compartments retaining an original powder flask, shot flask, nipple-key and oil-bottle.
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Estimate £2,000-3,000