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A 15-BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN
SIGNED MORISON PATENT, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With two-stage Spanish barrel inlaid with gold at the breech and at the chiselled girdle, silver spider fore-sight, patent breech with gold line, gold-lined 'Morison Patent' stamp, and platinum-lined touch-hole, plain grooved tang, lightly engraved lock with roller and rainproof pan, and struck with a gold-lined mark similar to that on the breech, bird's eye maple half-stock, chequered grip, engraved iron mounts, silver escutcheon, horn fore-end cap, and later ramrod
39½in. (100.4cm.) barrel
SIGNED MORISON PATENT, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With two-stage Spanish barrel inlaid with gold at the breech and at the chiselled girdle, silver spider fore-sight, patent breech with gold line, gold-lined 'Morison Patent' stamp, and platinum-lined touch-hole, plain grooved tang, lightly engraved lock with roller and rainproof pan, and struck with a gold-lined mark similar to that on the breech, bird's eye maple half-stock, chequered grip, engraved iron mounts, silver escutcheon, horn fore-end cap, and later ramrod
39½in. (100.4cm.) barrel