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THE BLAIR CHARITABLE TRUST, REMOVED FROM BLAIR CASTLE, BLAIR ATHOLL, SCOTLAND
A RARE BREECH-LOADING FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE
BY PIERRE GANDON, SR., LONDON, CIRCA 1735
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A RARE BREECH-LOADING FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE
BY PIERRE GANDON, Sr., LONDON, CIRCA 1735
With 33 in. (84 cm.) swamped three-stage sighted barrel, iron tang incorporating the folding aperture rear-sight, border engraved signed rounded lock, figured walnut half-stock carved with a shell in relief behind the barrel-tang, border engraved brass mounts, and iron trigger-guard with threaded breech-plug, London proof marks and Foreigner's mark
48 ¼ in. (123 cm.) overall
BY PIERRE GANDON, Sr., LONDON, CIRCA 1735
With 33 in. (84 cm.) swamped three-stage sighted barrel, iron tang incorporating the folding aperture rear-sight, border engraved signed rounded lock, figured walnut half-stock carved with a shell in relief behind the barrel-tang, border engraved brass mounts, and iron trigger-guard with threaded breech-plug, London proof marks and Foreigner's mark
48 ¼ in. (123 cm.) overall
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