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The gun was completed in 1879 with engraving of exceptional quality
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A FINE 10-BORE (3IN) HAMMER WILDFOWLING-GUN BY TRULOCK & HARRISS, NO. 7774
The rebounding backlocks with ornate hammers, toplever, percussion fences, the action-body, lockplates and furniture engraved with vignettes of game-birds and gun-dogs amid best foliate-scrollwork, with traces of hardening-colour, finely-figured stock with recoil-pad, the browned bold damascus barrels with game-rib
Weight 10lb. 2oz., 14in. pull, 30in. barrels, approx. & choke, 3in. chambers, nitro reproof
The rebounding backlocks with ornate hammers, toplever, percussion fences, the action-body, lockplates and furniture engraved with vignettes of game-birds and gun-dogs amid best foliate-scrollwork, with traces of hardening-colour, finely-figured stock with recoil-pad, the browned bold damascus barrels with game-rib
Weight 10lb. 2oz., 14in. pull, 30in. barrels, approx. & choke, 3in. chambers, nitro reproof