Product Details
BOUTET, VERSAILLES
A 20-BORE FLINTLOCK SINGLE-BARRELLED FOWLING PIECE FOR RESTORATION, serial no 81,
circa 1785, with two-stage 35in. barrel, bead fore-sight set within a gilded surround, strong remnants of gilded arabesques to the breech-section, carved raised sighting rib, the left hand side barrel-flat engraved 'MANUFACTURE A VERSAILLES No. 81', florally engraved solid top-tang, flat border engraved bevel-edged lockplate with stepped rounded tail signed 'BOUTET' and 'ARQSR' (some of the signature obscured by the hammer breast), hammer broken off at neck and missing, carved frizzen with scrolled foot and roller-bearing spring, walnut handrail stock with finely chequered rococco panels to the wrist and fore-end, bulbous comb, carved ramrod channel, engraved iron furniture including raised trigger-guard tang, florally carved side-nail cups, broad trigger-guard bow, vase finial and carved ramrod thimbles, iron work stained, losses to fore-end wood at tip and possible other faults
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Estimate £600-800