Lot Essay
This goose rifle has a curious history. The case was purchased by the Essex gun collector Alan Dace in a pawnbroker's shop in Ipswich. At the time he was assured that there was no rifle with it. Some ten years later Dace heard that a volley rifle had been purchased in the same shop, and Keith Neal was able to acquire the rifle by exchange
Only two complete cased Forsyth seven-barrel volley rifles are recorded. Seven-barrel sporting rifles, for birds as well as roe deer, were made popular by Colonel Thomas Thornton's sporting adventures, chronicled in A Sporting Tour through the Northern Parts of England and A Sporting Tour through France
See lots 12, 16 and 165
Only two complete cased Forsyth seven-barrel volley rifles are recorded. Seven-barrel sporting rifles, for birds as well as roe deer, were made popular by Colonel Thomas Thornton's sporting adventures, chronicled in A Sporting Tour through the Northern Parts of England and A Sporting Tour through France
See lots 12, 16 and 165