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A 22-Bore Flintlock D.B. Sporting Gun
A 22-Bore Flintlock D.B. Sporting Gun By Wood, York, Early 19th Century, Birmingham Silver Hallmarks For 1802, Maker's Mark Of Charles Freeth With rebrowned twist sighted barrels signed in capitals along the rib, breeches each with two gold lines and gold-lined touch-hole (one relined in brass), border engraved tang engraved with a dead pheasant suspended from foliage, and with a starburst in the sighting groove, border engraved flat locks (one cock expertly replaced) each with maker's gold-lined oval, rainproof pan and roller, figured half-stock with cheek-piece and chequered grip, border engraved steel mounts comprising butt-plate decorated with a gundog and game bird on the heel tang, trigger-guard with a game bird amid foliage on the border engraved bow, and a starburst on the scrolled tang, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, vacant silver escutcheon, barrel-bolt escutcheons and hallmarked rear ramrod-pipe, and horn-tipped ramrod with iron worm, London proof marks 80.8 cm. barrels Footnotes: Joseph Wood is recorded at 28 Spurrier Gate, York, Yorkshire between 1815 and 1820 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
A 22-Bore Flintlock D.B. Sporting Gun By Wood, York, Early 19th Century, Birmingham Silver Hallmarks For 1802, Maker's Mark Of Charles Freeth With rebrowned twist sighted barrels signed in capitals along the rib, breeches each with two gold lines and gold-lined touch-hole (one relined in brass), border engraved tang engraved with a dead pheasant suspended from foliage, and with a starburst in the sighting groove, border engraved flat locks (one cock expertly replaced) each with maker's gold-lined oval, rainproof pan and roller, figured half-stock with cheek-piece and chequered grip, border engraved steel mounts comprising butt-plate decorated with a gundog and game bird on the heel tang, trigger-guard with a game bird amid foliage on the border engraved bow, and a starburst on the scrolled tang, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, vacant silver escutcheon, barrel-bolt escutcheons and hallmarked rear ramrod-pipe, and horn-tipped ramrod with iron worm, London proof marks 80.8 cm. barrels Footnotes: Joseph Wood is recorded at 28 Spurrier Gate, York, Yorkshire between 1815 and 1820 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing