Fine Modern & Antique Guns - September 2018 : Sale A0918 Lot 515
A GOOD REPRODUCTION 3-BORE PERCUSSION SINGLE-BARRELLED BANK-GUN SIGNED MERRETT, serial no. 17,

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A GOOD REPRODUCTION 3-BORE PERCUSSION SINGLE-BARRELLED BANK-GUN SIGNED 'MERRETT', serial no. 17,
circa 1995, with browned triple-stage imitation twist-iron 48in. barrel signed 'J.D. MERRETT, MAKER, NEWPORT', engraved and colour hardened breech-block with gold line, carved and engraved snail with gold plug, fully scroll engraved colour hardened top-tang, border and scroll engraved colour hardened bar-action lock signed 'J.D. MERRETT', slightly raised hammer platform, carved and engraved hammer, chequered walnut half-stock with hallmarked silver shield-shaped escutcheon at wrist, blued furniture except twin silver oval barrel key escutcheons and horn fore-end tip, no provision for ramrod

Other Notes: J.D. Merrett of Newport reconstructed a number of muzzle-loading arms from antique parts, this being his seventeenth. All were re-signed by him and finished to an extremely high standard. It requires a Section 2 Shotgun Licence to possess within the UK.

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Estimate £3,500-5,000  € 3,884-5,548

S2 - Sold as a Section 2 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act