A 15-BORE FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE with two-stage Spanish barrel inlaid at the breech with silver scrolls and foliage and with two stamps of A.P. Esteva of Barcelona (Neue Støckel 328 and 329), silver spider fore-sight and gold-lined touch-hole, engraved tang, signed flat bevelled lock with roller and second form of signature (top jaw and screw replaced), figured walnut half-stock carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, engraved iron mounts including trigger-guard with acorn finial, chequered grip, horn fore-end cap, and later horn-tipped ramrod, by John Twigg, London, circa 1776-80

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A 15-BORE FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE with two-stage Spanish barrel inlaid at the breech with silver scrolls and foliage and with two stamps of A.P. Esteva of Barcelona (Neue Støckel 328 and 329), silver spider fore-sight and gold-lined touch-hole, engraved tang, signed flat bevelled lock with roller and second form of signature (top jaw and screw replaced), figured walnut half-stock carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, engraved iron mounts including trigger-guard with acorn finial, chequered grip, horn fore-end cap, and later horn-tipped ramrod, by John Twigg, London, circa 1776-80
41½in. barrel
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, p. 175

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