Product Details
W. PARKER, LONDON
A MOST UNUSUAL 18-BORE PERCUSSION UNDER-HAMMER SINGLE-SHOT SPORTING-RIFLE, no visible serial number,
circa 1835, with slightly swamped 28in. rifled octagonal barrel, the top-flat signed 'W. PARKER GUN MAKER TO HIS MAJESTY HOLBORN, LONDON', dove-tailed boat-shaped fore-sight, dove-tailed standing notch rear-sight with additional folding leaf, large borderline and scroll engraved side bolster, scroll engraved top-tang, inverted borderline engraved bar-action lock signed 'W. PARKER' (also inverted), scroll engraving to the lock-bar, martial trophy engraved to the tail and radiant needles engraved forwards of the scroll engraved hammer, walnut half-stock with finely chequered wrist, iron plate applied behind the nipple as a heat guard, iron heel-plate with engraved spur, engraved trigger-guard bow with scrolled tang, iron ramrod throat and mushroom-headed ebony ramrod
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Estimate £3,000-5,000