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19TH CENTURY
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a liege double percussion gun
19th Century
With tapering sighted browned double barrel, the cocks carved with acanthus, the lockplates inscribed Lemaire and à Biomois, with a walnut half stock carved with a stag's head and with iron ramrod - 72cm. barrel; And an American percussion musket struck with the American eagle on the lockplate and with the inscription US SPRINGFIELD, the tapering barrel with adjustable hind-sight and two iron barrel bands - 99cm. barrel (2)
19th Century
With tapering sighted browned double barrel, the cocks carved with acanthus, the lockplates inscribed Lemaire and à Biomois, with a walnut half stock carved with a stag's head and with iron ramrod - 72cm. barrel; And an American percussion musket struck with the American eagle on the lockplate and with the inscription US SPRINGFIELD, the tapering barrel with adjustable hind-sight and two iron barrel bands - 99cm. barrel (2)