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A CASED 15-BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN
BY JOVER & SON, LONDON, CIRCA 1790
With rebrowned two-stage twist barrel signed on the octagonal breech, and silver spider fore-sight, engraved gold line and gold-lined touch-hole, engraved tang, bevelled detented lock signed within a gold oval, engraved with foliage and a bird, and with a martial trophy on the stepped tail, roller, and gold-lined pan, the interior with oval bridle finely pierced and engraved with foliage, figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, blued iron mounts including scroll trigger-guard engraved with a game bird hanging from a flintlock gun in a landscape, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, horn fore-end cap, original horn-tipped ramrod, and traces of original blueing: in contemporary lined and fitted mahogany case with some accessories including leather flint-wallet, London proof marks
36¼in. barrel
BY JOVER & SON, LONDON, CIRCA 1790
With rebrowned two-stage twist barrel signed on the octagonal breech, and silver spider fore-sight, engraved gold line and gold-lined touch-hole, engraved tang, bevelled detented lock signed within a gold oval, engraved with foliage and a bird, and with a martial trophy on the stepped tail, roller, and gold-lined pan, the interior with oval bridle finely pierced and engraved with foliage, figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, blued iron mounts including scroll trigger-guard engraved with a game bird hanging from a flintlock gun in a landscape, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, horn fore-end cap, original horn-tipped ramrod, and traces of original blueing: in contemporary lined and fitted mahogany case with some accessories including leather flint-wallet, London proof marks
36¼in. barrel