A GERMAN 18-BORE D.B. PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN, with browned twist sighted barrels inlaid with gold lines and cresting at the muzzles, and scrolling tendrils inhabited by birds at the breech, the rib decorated en suite and signed in gold, gold lines, case-hardened breeches and tang engraved with stylised foliage and interlace picked out in gold and inhabited by a gold bird, back-action locks and hammers with cusped edges decorated en suite, the former with gold hound and hare respectively, figured walnut half-stock carved with panels of foliage in bas-relief, the butt with cheek-piece carved en suite at the rear, the foliage framing two pheasants, case-hardened iron mounts including scrolled trigger-guard and butt-plate decorated en suite with the locks, the latter involving a fox, gold escutcheon with crowned arms of Salm within mantling, sling swivels, and some original finish (ramrod missing), by Adam Rosen in Dyck, Liège proof mark, circa 1850