Lot 14
14
A 15-BORE D.B. PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN with rebrowned twist sighted barrels signed in full on the rib, engraved breeches with two gold lines and platinum plugs, foliate scroll engraved tang, signed case-hardened locks each engraved with scrolling foliage and a dog and birds in a landscape, figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip and fore-end, iron mounts including trigger-guard engraved with a pointer and a game bird in a landscape, vacant shield-shaped escutcheon, and original white-metal mounted wooden ramrod, signed D. Egg, Pall Mall, London, London proof marks, circa 1835

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A 15-BORE D.B. PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN with rebrowned twist sighted barrels signed in full on the rib, engraved breeches with two gold lines and platinum plugs, foliate scroll engraved tang, signed case-hardened locks each engraved with scrolling foliage and a dog and birds in a landscape, figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip and fore-end, iron mounts including trigger-guard engraved with a pointer and a game bird in a landscape, vacant shield-shaped escutcheon, and original white-metal mounted wooden ramrod, signed D. Egg, Pall Mall, London, London proof marks, circa 1835
30in. barrels

Lot Essay

Following Durs Egg's death in 1831, the business was carried on by his executors, his son George Frederick Egg and his son-in-law Frederick Nicolls Devey. The business was actually managed by another son, John, who probably retailed this gun

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