LATE 18TH CENTURY
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A 10-Bore Flintlock Wildfowling Gun
Late 18th Century
With sighted barrel of exceptional length engraved 'Gillingham' at the breech, engraved tang, rounded military lock engraved with 'GR' crowned, walnut half-stock carved with the initials 'WH' on each side of the butt (fore-stock cracked and chipped, butt repaired), brass mounts including trigger-guard with acorn finial, horn fore-end cap, and original iron-tipped ramrod (worm missing, iron parts with some pitting throughout), London proof marks
71in. (181.6cm.) barrel
Late 18th Century
With sighted barrel of exceptional length engraved 'Gillingham' at the breech, engraved tang, rounded military lock engraved with 'GR' crowned, walnut half-stock carved with the initials 'WH' on each side of the butt (fore-stock cracked and chipped, butt repaired), brass mounts including trigger-guard with acorn finial, horn fore-end cap, and original iron-tipped ramrod (worm missing, iron parts with some pitting throughout), London proof marks
71in. (181.6cm.) barrel