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ALEXANDER WILSON, LONDON
A 15-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING-GUN, no visible serial number,
circa 1830 but possibly converted from flintlock, with re-browned 26 1/2in. twist barrels (light frosting), the top-rib signed 'ALEXr. WILSON SHERRARD ST'T LONDON', bead fore-sight, twin platinum lines and vented plugs at breech, fully fenced nipples, border and scroll engraved top-tang, borderline engraved bar-action locks signed 'ALEXr WILSON SHERRARD ST'T LONDON' and further engraved with a coiled feathered serpent, a shell and scrolls (traces of colour), slab-sided dolphin-headed hammers, each also engraved with a coiled feathered serpent, walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist and with carved droppers behind the locks, rectangular clipped-corner escutcheon to top of wrist, iron heel-plate with engraved acanthus foliage around the screws and along the top-spur, border, shell and acanthus scroll engraved trigger-guard bow and finial with raised scrolled pistol-grip tang further engraved with a coiled feathered serpent, engraved iron ramrod throat, plain thimbles and metal-tipped ebony ramrod
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Estimate £800-1,200