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A 16-BORE SPANISH MADRID-LOCK FOWLING-PIECE, AND A 16-BORE NORTH AFRICAN FLINTLOCK GUN
THE FIRST BY A. PEDRO ESTEVA, BARCELONA, CIRCA 1740, THE SECOND 19TH CENTURY
The first with two-stage barrel, chiselled girdle, and silver spider fore-sight, inlaid at the breech with silver strapwork and stamped with two punzóns of the maker (gold lining missing), and fitted with a bayonet stud on the underside of the muzzle, bevelled lock engraved with scrollwork on a punched ground, moulded half-stock, engraved brass mounts set on the escutcheon, side-plate and butt-plate with an oval silver medallion decorated with a Classical head in relief in the Italian manner, and later horn-tipped ramrod (some wear throughout); the second with French export barrel and lock, the former chiselled in high relief at the breech, the latter signed 'Berthon Bourlier et fils à St. Etienne', full stock with fish-tail butt decorated with applied embossed silver plates, and seven embossed silver barrel bands (ramrod missing, fore-stock defective), the barrel and lock circa 1820-30, the stock circa 1860-70
42 5/8in. (108.6cm.) and 48in. (121.9cm.) barrels (2)
