Product Details
J. RENKIN, LIEGE
A RARE 14-BORE PERCUSSION DELUXE DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING-GUN, MODEL 'SAFETY SHOTGUN', serial no. 103,
circa 1855, with browned damascus 30 1/2in. barrels, carved arabesques to the sides of breech, scroll engraving to rib-end and traces of gilt scroll-work to the tops of the breech, complex bordered broad top-tang engraved with scrolls and inlaid in gold with a bolting rabbit, complex bordered hump-backed scroll engraved bar-action locks further enhanced with gilt scroll-work (some losses), carved, moulded and engraved hammers, walnut half-stock of 'Lazarino' style with relief carved acanthus scrolls in lieu of chequering at the wrist (age cracks to fore-end and above locks), iron heel-pate with central inlet safety plate marked 'J.H. RENKIN AINE BREVETE No 103', locking button to toe, complex trigger-guard with grip-safe attached to lower tang, the whole scroll engraved with gilt inlays, en-suite ramrod throat, brass tipped ebony ramrod and plain pipes
Other Notes: This rare shotgun combines a grip safety which must be depressed before mounting with a sprung heel-plate safe meaning the gun can only be fire when shouldered. The late Geoffrey Boothroyd wrote an in depth article on this actual gun for the December issue of Guns Review magazine in 1996
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Estimate £1,000-1,500
(USD 1,296-1,944)
(EUR 1,110-1,664)
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