A FLINTLOCK WILDFOWLING GUN re-converted from percussion, with two-stage sighted barrel of exceptional length (pitted), flat lock, figured walnut full stock carved with a shell behind the tang (butt wormed and filled, half of fore-end replaced), brass mounts including pierced serpentine side-plate and vacant foliate escutcheon (side-plate incomplete, butt-plate a working replacement), and later horn-tipped wooden ramrod, unsigned, mid-18th Century

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A FLINTLOCK WILDFOWLING GUN re-converted from percussion, with two-stage sighted barrel of exceptional length (pitted), flat lock, figured walnut full stock carved with a shell behind the tang (butt wormed and filled, half of fore-end replaced), brass mounts including pierced serpentine side-plate and vacant foliate escutcheon (side-plate incomplete, butt-plate a working replacement), and later horn-tipped wooden ramrod, unsigned, mid-18th Century
84¾in. barrel

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