A 5-BORE PERCUSSION WILDFOWLING GUN with rebrowned twist sighted barrel engraved with scrolling foliage and signed in full at the breech, case-hardened breech engraved with a duck and with pierced platinum plug, broad case-hardened tang, hammer and signed lock all engraved with scrolling foliage, figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, engraved steel mounts including butt-plate (pitted) and trigger-guard with pineapple finial, the latter engraved with duck in a landscape, vacant silver escutcheon, horn fore-end cap, original brass-mounted ramrod, and some original finish, by Westley Richards, 170 New Bond St., London, Birmingham proof marks, No. 746, mid-19th Century

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A 5-BORE PERCUSSION WILDFOWLING GUN with rebrowned twist sighted barrel engraved with scrolling foliage and signed in full at the breech, case-hardened breech engraved with a duck and with pierced platinum plug, broad case-hardened tang, hammer and signed lock all engraved with scrolling foliage, figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, engraved steel mounts including butt-plate (pitted) and trigger-guard with pineapple finial, the latter engraved with duck in a landscape, vacant silver escutcheon, horn fore-end cap, original brass-mounted ramrod, and some original finish, by Westley Richards, 170 New Bond St., London, Birmingham proof marks, No. 746, mid-19th Century
42½in. barrel

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