A 14-BORE FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE with shortened rebrowned two-stage barrel with gold-lined maker's stamp at the breech, silver spider fore-sight, and gold-lined touch-hole, engraved tang, bolted flat bevelled lock with roller and third form of signature, gold-lined pan, walnut half-stock carved with a shell in relief behind the barrel tang, engraved iron mounts including trigger-guard with pineapple finial, chequered grip, engraved silver fore-end cap and barrel-bolt escutcheons, and brass-tipped ramrod (iron parts worn and pitted), by John Twigg, London, dated 1787