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A 10-BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN
BY JOHN TWIGG, LONDON, CIRCA 1771-5
With rebrowned two-stage twist barrel, slightly belled muzzle, silver spider fore-sight, gold-lined maker's stamp with star and crown at the breech (Neue Støckel 8379), and gold-lined touch-hole, engraved tang, flat bevelled lock with stepped tail and second form of signature, rainproof pan and swivel-link between the steel and steel-spring, walnut half-stock carved with a shell in relief behind the barrel tang, coarsely chequered grip with a dot in the centre of each diamond, engraved iron mounts including trigger-guard with second pattern acorn finial, horn fore-end cap, and later horn-tipped ramrod (in worn condition throughout, iron parts pitted, the lock modernized circa 1800), Tower proof marks
36in. barrel
BY JOHN TWIGG, LONDON, CIRCA 1771-5
With rebrowned two-stage twist barrel, slightly belled muzzle, silver spider fore-sight, gold-lined maker's stamp with star and crown at the breech (Neue Støckel 8379), and gold-lined touch-hole, engraved tang, flat bevelled lock with stepped tail and second form of signature, rainproof pan and swivel-link between the steel and steel-spring, walnut half-stock carved with a shell in relief behind the barrel tang, coarsely chequered grip with a dot in the centre of each diamond, engraved iron mounts including trigger-guard with second pattern acorn finial, horn fore-end cap, and later horn-tipped ramrod (in worn condition throughout, iron parts pitted, the lock modernized circa 1800), Tower proof marks
36in. barrel
Literature
W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, p.169