Product Details
A 14-BORE PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN CONVERTED FROM FLINTLOCK BY HOLGATE, CIRCA 1800, no visible serial number, with 32 in tapered round sighted barrel, the patent breech with two inset gold bands and an inset gold poincon stamped 'NOCK / LON / DON', in three lines, there is a drum and nipple conversion with vented platinum plug, the fixed breech is foliate scroll engraved the work to a high standard, the lock with borderlines and leaf edge decoration the centre with foliate engraving and signed 'HOLGATE' to the centre, dolphins headed hammer engraved to match, figured walnut half-stock having a chequered wrist and fitted with foliate scroll engraved iron mounts all quality work, the trigger-guard with a pineapple finial, the wrist has an inset gold escutcheon with a past owners initials 'D.F'. the gun is complete with its brass mounted ebonised rammer, a good piece fairly sharp overall and honest
Provenance: This gun was originally made circa 1800 by Henry Nock and converted to percussion circa 1830, there was a Holgate established at Henley-on-Thames circa 1815, and a John Holgate at Reading in the 1820's probably the same person
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Estimate £300-500