A FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE with associated two-stage sighted barrel (from a gun converted to percussion), engraved flat bevelled lock inscribed with initials PSIW and with chiselled details on the tail, cock, steel, and bridle to the pan, and engraved on the inside (mainspring missing, jaw screw associated, one side-nail replaced), moulded figured walnut half-stock finely carved in relief on the fore-end, at the barrel tang and at the toe of the butt with scrollwork terminating in monster-heads, and with a monster-head behind the grip, iron mounts finely chiselled in low relief with foliage, pierced side-plate involving a monster-head, pierced escutcheon with a grotesque mask, and butt-plate with long waved tang in the form of a monster, and engraved faceted iron ramrod-pipes, early 18th Century

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A FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE with associated two-stage sighted barrel (from a gun converted to percussion), engraved flat bevelled lock inscribed with initials PSIW and with chiselled details on the tail, cock, steel, and bridle to the pan, and engraved on the inside (mainspring missing, jaw screw associated, one side-nail replaced), moulded figured walnut half-stock finely carved in relief on the fore-end, at the barrel tang and at the toe of the butt with scrollwork terminating in monster-heads, and with a monster-head behind the grip, iron mounts finely chiselled in low relief with foliage, pierced side-plate involving a monster-head, pierced escutcheon with a grotesque mask, and butt-plate with long waved tang in the form of a monster, and engraved faceted iron ramrod-pipes, early 18th Century
32½in. barrel [E.323]

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Cf. the pair of pistols with Keiser barrels, lot 533

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