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A 16-BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK SPORTING CARBINE
BY SAMUEL & CHARLES SMITH, PRINCES STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE, LONDON, NO. 4366, LONDON SILVER HALLMARKS FOR 1830
With rebrowned twist octagonal sighted barrel cut with nine shallow grooves and signed in full on the top flat, case-hardened recessed patent breech with four platinum lines and platinum-lined touch-hole, plain tang, signed flat serial numbered lock (lightly pitted) with safety-catch, roller, and swept rainproof pan, the lock-plate engraved 'Patent 3455' to the rear of the pan, the steel engraved 'Patent Self Primer 3455', figured walnut full stock, chequered grip, cheek-piece, silver-mounted sliding patch-box cover, faceted butt-plate tang and trigger-guard finial, silver escutcheon, turned and faceted silver ramrod-pipes, iron and silver sling mounts, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, set trigger, and associated brass-tipped ramrod, London proof marks, silver maker's mark E.K.
24in. barrel
BY SAMUEL & CHARLES SMITH, PRINCES STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE, LONDON, NO. 4366, LONDON SILVER HALLMARKS FOR 1830
With rebrowned twist octagonal sighted barrel cut with nine shallow grooves and signed in full on the top flat, case-hardened recessed patent breech with four platinum lines and platinum-lined touch-hole, plain tang, signed flat serial numbered lock (lightly pitted) with safety-catch, roller, and swept rainproof pan, the lock-plate engraved 'Patent 3455' to the rear of the pan, the steel engraved 'Patent Self Primer 3455', figured walnut full stock, chequered grip, cheek-piece, silver-mounted sliding patch-box cover, faceted butt-plate tang and trigger-guard finial, silver escutcheon, turned and faceted silver ramrod-pipes, iron and silver sling mounts, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, set trigger, and associated brass-tipped ramrod, London proof marks, silver maker's mark E.K.
24in. barrel
Provenance
Arthur Rosling, Chelmsford, Essex
Richard Cooper
Richard Cooper