Fine Modern & Antique Arms - March 2024 : Sale A0324 Lot 410
A LATE 15-BORE FLINTLOCK DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING GUN SIGNED HOLMES, LIVERPOOL,

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A LATE 15-BORE FLINTLOCK DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING GUN SIGNED HOLMES, LIVERPOOL,
circa 1825, with laminated 32in. barrels, the breech-block signed on a gold rectangular poincon 'HOLMES LIVERPOOL', four further gold bands (one partially replaced), platinum lined touch-hole, engraved top-tang with broad shallow sighting groove, bead fore-sight, border and scroll engraved locks signed 'HOLMES' in script below the raked fast-fire rainproof gold lined pans, roller frizzens with engraved front faces and engraved top-jaws to the angled swan-necked cocks, chequered walnut half-stock (hairline cracked on left side below cock and right side behind lock), white-metal reinforcing plates forward and aft of both locks, the front examples engraved, iron furniture including scrolled lower tang (all cleaned of engraved detail) and brass mounted ramrod



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Estimate £2,000-3,000