A FINE GERMAN 22-BORE D.B. PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN with browned twist sighted barrels signed in full in gold on the rib and decorated with vines in two-colour gold at the muzzles and breeches, case-hardened tang engraved with foliage, curved case-hardened hammers engraved and gilt with foliage, blued and gilt gravitating stops, case-hardened trigger-plate with urn-shaped finial and engraved with scrolling foliage, highly figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip and fore-end, the former carved at the base with a lion's head and foliage in relief, the butt carved with foliage and a cornucopia behind the cheek-piece, case-hardened steel mounts engraved with foliage including butt-plate, trigger-guard decorated with foliage and acorns in two-colour gold, engraved silver escutcheon gilt against a blued ground with the crowned arms of Salm within mantling, silver ramrod-pipes, sling swivels, original horn-tipped whalebone ramrod, and most of its original finish, by Adam Rosen in Dyck, circa 1830-40