Details
A FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN with sighted barrel engraved with scrollwork at the breech and with the inscription 'Lazaro Lazorino' on the sighting flat, rounded lock signed Luca Zugno (of Brescia) (top jaw and screw missing), carved figured walnut half-stock (butt cracked), faceted brass mounts, pierced and chiselled side-plate, and ramrod (one sling mount missing), third quarter of the 18th Century; a German breech-loading flintlock gun with turn-off barrel, octagonal sighted breech, scroll engraved rounded lock, moulded half-stock (fore-end cracked and chipped), and iron trigger-guard with pierced finial, third quarter of the 17th Century; and another, remounted, with take-down butt (wormed), the brass side-plate pierced and chiselled with a stag and a hound (each gun with surface rust), 18th Century
43¾in., 29¾in. and 23¾in. barrels (3)
43¾in., 29¾in. and 23¾in. barrels (3)