ANOTHER, for birding, with long slender octagonal barrel of small bore rifled with seven grooves and stamped with the initials I.H. at the breech, scroll engraved rounded lock with moulded border (top of cock missing), walnut full stock (a working replacement, cracked), iron mounts including flat butt-plate with long tang, pierced and chiselled side-plate involving a bird and two monster-heads, and vacant escutcheon en suite, and turned ramrod-pipes (ramrod and one pipe missing), circa 1700

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ANOTHER, for birding, with long slender octagonal barrel of small bore rifled with seven grooves and stamped with the initials I.H. at the breech, scroll engraved rounded lock with moulded border (top of cock missing), walnut full stock (a working replacement, cracked), iron mounts including flat butt-plate with long tang, pierced and chiselled side-plate involving a bird and two monster-heads, and vacant escutcheon en suite, and turned ramrod-pipes (ramrod and one pipe missing), circa 1700
38¼in. barrel [E.340, S.19]

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