細節
A Very Rare Cased 20-Bore D.B. Flintlock Sporting Gun
By James Purdey, 4 Princes Street, Leicester Square, London, No. 257, circa 1821
With browned twist barrels signed in full in script on the rib, case-hardened recessed patent breeches each with two platinum lines and platinum-lined touch-hole, scroll engraved case-hardened tang, signed serial numbered locks engraved with foliage and monster-heads, rollers, pierced cocks, and rainproof pans, finely figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip and fore-end, the butt with high comb, finely engraved blued iron mounts, the bow of the trigger-guard engraved with foliage and monster-heads, silver escutcheon, original brass-mounted ramrod, and much original finish: in original fitted highly figured mahogany case (relined) with accessories including a powder-flask of planished tin, and a bag of wads with the gunmaker's label of Charles Spencer of Northallerton, North Yorkshire, the lid with trade card of the earliest type, flush-fitting carrying handle, and circular escutcheon engraved with the original owner's name 'Mr. W. Rutson', London proof marks, the barrels forged by Charles Lancaster
28¼in. (71.8cm.) barrels
來源
William Rutson
By descent to his great-great-grandson David James, M.B.E., D.S.C., by whom sold at Knight, Frank & Rutley, London, 2 December 1965, lot 282 (£840 to Neal)
出版
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, British Gunmakers Their Trade Cards, Cases and Equipment 1760-1860, plate 459
L. Patrick Unsworth, The Early Purdeys, pp. 116, 181, plate 7
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