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By tradition used on one of Captain Cook's Antipodean expeditions by a member of the Hendry family, who settled in New Zealand, and passed the gun down over seven generations
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UNSIGNED, CIRCA 1770
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AN UNUSUAL 16-BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN
Unsigned, circa 1770
With two-stage Spanish twist barrel with chiselled girdle and silver spider fore-sight, the octagonal breech section inlaid with gold decorative marks and on the top flat with the gold-lined stamps of Eudal Pous (Lavin 81), two gold lines, and gold-lined touch-hole, plain groved tang, flat bevelled lock with stepped tail, faceted pan and pan-cover, and roller on the steel and steel-spring, the interior with intercepting sear, moulded figured walnut half-stock (bruised, reduced from full), iron mounts including trigger-guard with acorn finial, cast and chased silver escutcheon, iron ramrod-pipes, and horn-tipped bone ramrod with worm (iron parts with surface pitting, some wear throughout, cock a working replacement)
40½in. (102.8cm.) barrel
Unsigned, circa 1770
With two-stage Spanish twist barrel with chiselled girdle and silver spider fore-sight, the octagonal breech section inlaid with gold decorative marks and on the top flat with the gold-lined stamps of Eudal Pous (Lavin 81), two gold lines, and gold-lined touch-hole, plain groved tang, flat bevelled lock with stepped tail, faceted pan and pan-cover, and roller on the steel and steel-spring, the interior with intercepting sear, moulded figured walnut half-stock (bruised, reduced from full), iron mounts including trigger-guard with acorn finial, cast and chased silver escutcheon, iron ramrod-pipes, and horn-tipped bone ramrod with worm (iron parts with surface pitting, some wear throughout, cock a working replacement)
40½in. (102.8cm.) barrel
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