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A CASED BOHEMIAN 17-BORE D.B. PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLE
BY ANTON VINCENT LEBEDA, PRAGUE, CIRCA 1860
With browned twist sighted barrels each cut with eight grooves and signed on the rib behind the fixed and folding sights, case-hardened patent breeches engraved at the centre with a wolf in a landscape and each with pierced platinum plug, scroll engraved case-hardened tang, signed scroll engraved detented locks, the right lock engraved with a hound, and the left lock with a boar, figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, scroll engraved case-hardened iron mounts, the trigger-guard with a recumbent stag beneath a tree and with shaped dark horn tang, silver escutcheon, the butt with cheek-piece, set triggers, iron sling mounts, original brass-mounted ramrod, and some original finish: in contemporary veneered brass-bound fitted case lined in mauve felt, with accessories, the lid with trade label and flush-fitting carrying handle, the barrels and butt-plate struck with Irish registration numbers
25in. barrels
BY ANTON VINCENT LEBEDA, PRAGUE, CIRCA 1860
With browned twist sighted barrels each cut with eight grooves and signed on the rib behind the fixed and folding sights, case-hardened patent breeches engraved at the centre with a wolf in a landscape and each with pierced platinum plug, scroll engraved case-hardened tang, signed scroll engraved detented locks, the right lock engraved with a hound, and the left lock with a boar, figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, scroll engraved case-hardened iron mounts, the trigger-guard with a recumbent stag beneath a tree and with shaped dark horn tang, silver escutcheon, the butt with cheek-piece, set triggers, iron sling mounts, original brass-mounted ramrod, and some original finish: in contemporary veneered brass-bound fitted case lined in mauve felt, with accessories, the lid with trade label and flush-fitting carrying handle, the barrels and butt-plate struck with Irish registration numbers
25in. barrels