BY ARTHUR AGNEW, WELSHPOOL, MID-19TH CENTURY
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A Welsh 25-Bore Percussion Sporting Rifle
By Arthur Agnew, Welshpool, mid-19th Century
With signed octagonal sighted barrel rifled with five grooves (re-breeched, pitted, folding back-sight incomplete), scroll engraved tang, signed scroll engraved lock with safety-catch (hammer replaced), figured walnut half-stock (repaired), chequered grip, engraved iron mounts (pitted), vacant shaped silver escutcheon, white metal fore-end cap, and iron ramrod, Birmingham proof marks
32.1/8in. (81.6cm.) barrel
By Arthur Agnew, Welshpool, mid-19th Century
With signed octagonal sighted barrel rifled with five grooves (re-breeched, pitted, folding back-sight incomplete), scroll engraved tang, signed scroll engraved lock with safety-catch (hammer replaced), figured walnut half-stock (repaired), chequered grip, engraved iron mounts (pitted), vacant shaped silver escutcheon, white metal fore-end cap, and iron ramrod, Birmingham proof marks
32.1/8in. (81.6cm.) barrel