AN UNUSUAL GOLD-PLATED 12-BORE D.B. PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN, the sighted barrels fluted and with raised ribs over their entire length, signed in full on the rib and engraved at the breech with scrolling foliage against a stippled ground, the tang and signed locks engraved en suite, highly figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip and fore-end, engraved mounts including trigger-guard and butt-plate each involving a grotesque, vacant escutcheon, and brass-mounted ramrod: in original mahogany case lined in purple velvet, containing a gilt patch-cutter, James Dixon & Sons gilt powder-flask, the body embossed with game birds above a mounted sportsman on each side, and a red moroco shot-flask, the body decorated with gilt tooling, the lid decorated with stamped gilt Prince of Wales's feathers and foliage, the latter partly gilt, and with gilt maker's name in full with gilt royal arms above, fitted with elaborate pierced gilt-brass mounts engraved with foliage (later, gilding refreshed); by Reilly, 502 New Oxford Street, London, London proofmarks, No. 12532, circa 1850 32in. barrels Intended for presentation in India