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AN 18-BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN
BY BENJAMIN GRIFFIN, BOND STREET, LONDON, CIRCA 1757
With two-stage barrel, turned girdle, silver spider fore-sight, and gold-lined touch-hole, the breech signed in a ribbon, engraved grooved tang, signed flat bevelled lock with roller (of circa 1780) and stepped tail, figured walnut full stock carved with a shell in relief behind the barrel tang, iron mounts engraved with rococo shells and scrollwork, solid side-plate, trigger-guard with first pattern acorn finial, engraved iron ramrod-pipes, and horn-tipped ramrod with worm, London proof marks with Griffin's own griffin mark
49in. barrel
BY BENJAMIN GRIFFIN, BOND STREET, LONDON, CIRCA 1757
With two-stage barrel, turned girdle, silver spider fore-sight, and gold-lined touch-hole, the breech signed in a ribbon, engraved grooved tang, signed flat bevelled lock with roller (of circa 1780) and stepped tail, figured walnut full stock carved with a shell in relief behind the barrel tang, iron mounts engraved with rococo shells and scrollwork, solid side-plate, trigger-guard with first pattern acorn finial, engraved iron ramrod-pipes, and horn-tipped ramrod with worm, London proof marks with Griffin's own griffin mark
49in. barrel
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Griffin & Tow and W. Bailes, pp. 52-3, plates 12a-c