Details
ANOTHER
BY EDWARD NEWTON, GRANTHAM, CIRCA 1760
With three-stage barrel with later patent breech stamped with gold-lined mark of Ash of Doncaster, signed border engraved flat bevelled lock, figured walnut half-stock (reduced, fore-end cracked and repaired) carved with a shell in relief behind the barrel tang, engraved brass mounts including solid side-plate, and cast and chased rococo escutcheon, horn fore-end cap, and later horn-tipped ramrod (in worn condition throughout, iron parts with some pitting), the lock by the maker's nephew William, circa 1770
34 1/8in. barrel
BY EDWARD NEWTON, GRANTHAM, CIRCA 1760
With three-stage barrel with later patent breech stamped with gold-lined mark of Ash of Doncaster, signed border engraved flat bevelled lock, figured walnut half-stock (reduced, fore-end cracked and repaired) carved with a shell in relief behind the barrel tang, engraved brass mounts including solid side-plate, and cast and chased rococo escutcheon, horn fore-end cap, and later horn-tipped ramrod (in worn condition throughout, iron parts with some pitting), the lock by the maker's nephew William, circa 1770
34 1/8in. barrel
Literature
W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, p. 85, plate 230