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A CASED 16-BORE SPANISH D.B. PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN
BY FRANCISCO BARRENECHEA IN EIBAR, DATED 1846
With browned barrels inlaid at the breech with panels of engraved silver scrollwork, two silver lines and the silver-inlaid signature and date, silver bead fore-sight set within a silver arrow, engraved bright steel patent breeches, grooved engraved bright steel tang, signed engraved bright steel locks each with chiselled external mainspring fitted with a roller, pierced hammers each chiselled with a lion-head, figured walnut half-stock, fluted Catalan-style butt, bright steel mounts engraved with foliage and including spur trigger-guard, iron sling loops, original iron- and brass-mounted ramrod, and nearly all its original finish: in contemporary English brass-mounted fitted mahogany case lined in plum velvet with some accessories including brass-mounted tooled leather double shot-belt, and brass-mounted cow-horn powder-flask and circular cap dispencer each with green suspension cord
33 1/8in. barrels
BY FRANCISCO BARRENECHEA IN EIBAR, DATED 1846
With browned barrels inlaid at the breech with panels of engraved silver scrollwork, two silver lines and the silver-inlaid signature and date, silver bead fore-sight set within a silver arrow, engraved bright steel patent breeches, grooved engraved bright steel tang, signed engraved bright steel locks each with chiselled external mainspring fitted with a roller, pierced hammers each chiselled with a lion-head, figured walnut half-stock, fluted Catalan-style butt, bright steel mounts engraved with foliage and including spur trigger-guard, iron sling loops, original iron- and brass-mounted ramrod, and nearly all its original finish: in contemporary English brass-mounted fitted mahogany case lined in plum velvet with some accessories including brass-mounted tooled leather double shot-belt, and brass-mounted cow-horn powder-flask and circular cap dispencer each with green suspension cord
33 1/8in. barrels
Literature
W. Keith Neal, Spanish Guns and Pistols, p. 43, fig. 47