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A 20-BORE SPANISH PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN
BY PEDRO AGUIRRE IN EIBAR, DATED 1841
With two-stage barrel with chiselled girdle and silver fore-sight, the octagonal breech with two silver lines and the silver-inlaid signature and date, engraved patent breech, engraved tang incorporating a back-sight, engraved flat lock with external mainspring, the hammer pierced and chiselled in the form of a lion, walnut half-stock, chequered grip and fore-end, Catalan-style butt, engraved iron trigger-guard and heel-plate, plain rounded side-plate, iron ramrod-pipes, and brass-mounted ramrod
34 15/16in. barrel
BY PEDRO AGUIRRE IN EIBAR, DATED 1841
With two-stage barrel with chiselled girdle and silver fore-sight, the octagonal breech with two silver lines and the silver-inlaid signature and date, engraved patent breech, engraved tang incorporating a back-sight, engraved flat lock with external mainspring, the hammer pierced and chiselled in the form of a lion, walnut half-stock, chequered grip and fore-end, Catalan-style butt, engraved iron trigger-guard and heel-plate, plain rounded side-plate, iron ramrod-pipes, and brass-mounted ramrod
34 15/16in. barrel
Literature
W. Keith Neal, Spanish Guns and Pistols, p.43, fig. 90