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A 13-BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN
BY S. BOWDLER, CIRCA 1740
With rebrowned barrel and silver fore-sight, the breech engraved with foliage and signed on the top flat, gold-lined touch-hole (lining incomplete), engraved grooved tang, signed rounded lock with raised border (signature worn), the pan with water-drains, figured walnut full stock (reduced to accomodate the barrel) with extended butt, carved with a scallop shell in relief behind the barrel tang and finely inlaid with silver wire scrollwork and silver dots between the escutcheon and the breech, iron mounts including pierced and chiselled side-plate, and horn-tipped ramrod (iron parts with some light pitting), the barrel by John Harman, London, London proof marks
29¾in. barrel
BY S. BOWDLER, CIRCA 1740
With rebrowned barrel and silver fore-sight, the breech engraved with foliage and signed on the top flat, gold-lined touch-hole (lining incomplete), engraved grooved tang, signed rounded lock with raised border (signature worn), the pan with water-drains, figured walnut full stock (reduced to accomodate the barrel) with extended butt, carved with a scallop shell in relief behind the barrel tang and finely inlaid with silver wire scrollwork and silver dots between the escutcheon and the breech, iron mounts including pierced and chiselled side-plate, and horn-tipped ramrod (iron parts with some light pitting), the barrel by John Harman, London, London proof marks
29¾in. barrel
Provenance
Arthur Rosling, Chelmsford, Essex
Literature
W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, plate 520