细节
A Fine 16-bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
By William Bailes, Russel (sic) Street, Bloomsbury, London, circa 1760
With rebrowned two-stage barrel signed in full on the breech and engraved with a band of beadwork at the rear, turned girdle, and silver spider fore-sight, gold-lined touch-hole, finely engraved tang, signed flat lock with moulded border and stepped tail, the plate secured by two screws from the right side (top jaw associated, screw replaced), moulded figured walnut half-stock carved in relief with a shell and rococo scrolls at the barrel tang, engraved iron mounts, fine silver wire inlay instead of a side-plate, with simulated screw-heads, a basket of flowers in silver instead of an escutcheon, engraved trigger-guard with first pattern acorn finial, horn fore-end cap, and later horn-tipped ramrod, London proof marks and Foreigner's mark
441/8in. (112cm.) barrel
出版
Richard Akehurst, Sporting Guns, p. 39, plates 30, 32
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, plates 416-7
Idem, Messrs Griffin & Tow and W. Bailes, pp. 164-5, plates 77a-d, and colour plates VII, VIII
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