Fine Modern & Antique Arms - March 2024 : Sale A0324 Lot 598
A CASED 12-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING GUN SIGNED J.C. SMITH, no visible serial number,

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A CASED 12-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING GUN SIGNED J.C. SMITH, no visible serial number,
circa 1855, with rebrowned laminated 28 1/2in. barrels, bead fore-sight, platinum plugs, Birmingham proofs, moulded fences and scroll engraved top-tang, white metal breech-plates, border and scroll engraved bar-action locks signed 'J.C. SMITH', engraved and dipped tails, engraved hammers, walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist, iron furniture, white metal rectangular escutcheon to back of wrist and oval escutcheons to the barrel key, replacement ramrod, in a good period brass-cornered walnut case with Westley Richards trade-label inside lid and compartmented and lined in the original green baize (small later modifications to barrel compartment), complete with a mahogany two-piece cleaning-rod, a good nickel and leather covered Hawksley powder flask and leather shot flask with brass nozzle and embossed body



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Estimate £700-900