A RARE 11-BORE SPORTING GUN WITH FORSYTH PATENT ROLLER PRIMER, rebuilt from flintlock, with rebrowned three-stage barrel with chiselled foliate girdle and signed in gold gothic script on the top flat of the octagonal breech, gold fore-sight within four gold-inlaid arrows, case-hardened breech with engraved gold band and gold line, case-hardened tang engraved with oak leaves, case-hardened bevelled lock engraved with foliage, a game bird and 'Forsyth & Co., Patent', engraved roller primer stamped 'F. Patent' and numbered 1951, figured walnut half-stock (cracked in front of the lock), butt with raised cheekpiece, chequered grip, blued iron mounts including butt-plate (light pitting) engraved with foliage and a pointer in a landscape, and scrolled trigger-guard with pineapple finial, the bow engraved with foliage and a heron, a serpent in its beak, vacant silver escutcheon, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons and fore-end cap, original iron-tipped wooden ramrod, and some original finish, by Richard Fenton, London, early 19th Century, rebuilt circa 1819 | Christie's

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A RARE 11-BORE SPORTING GUN WITH FORSYTH PATENT ROLLER PRIMER, rebuilt from flintlock, with rebrowned three-stage barrel with chiselled foliate girdle and signed in gold gothic script on the top flat of the octagonal breech, gold fore-sight within four gold-inlaid arrows, case-hardened breech with engraved gold band and gold line, case-hardened tang engraved with oak leaves, case-hardened bevelled lock engraved with foliage, a game bird and 'Forsyth & Co., Patent', engraved roller primer stamped 'F. Patent' and numbered 1951, figured walnut half-stock (cracked in front of the lock), butt with raised cheekpiece, chequered grip, blued iron mounts including butt-plate (light pitting) engraved with foliage and a pointer in a landscape, and scrolled trigger-guard with pineapple finial, the bow engraved with foliage and a heron, a serpent in its beak, vacant silver escutcheon, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons and fore-end cap, original iron-tipped wooden ramrod, and some original finish, by Richard Fenton, London, early 19th Century, rebuilt circa 1819

細節

A RARE 11-BORE SPORTING GUN WITH FORSYTH PATENT ROLLER PRIMER, rebuilt from flintlock, with rebrowned three-stage barrel with chiselled foliate girdle and signed in gold gothic script on the top flat of the octagonal breech, gold fore-sight within four gold-inlaid arrows, case-hardened breech with engraved gold band and gold line, case-hardened tang engraved with oak leaves, case-hardened bevelled lock engraved with foliage, a game bird and 'Forsyth & Co., Patent', engraved roller primer stamped 'F. Patent' and numbered 1951, figured walnut half-stock (cracked in front of the lock), butt with raised cheekpiece, chequered grip, blued iron mounts including butt-plate (light pitting) engraved with foliage and a pointer in a landscape, and scrolled trigger-guard with pineapple finial, the bow engraved with foliage and a heron, a serpent in its beak, vacant silver escutcheon, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons and fore-end cap, original iron-tipped wooden ramrod, and some original finish, by Richard Fenton, London, early 19th Century, rebuilt circa 1819
32¾in. barrel

出版

W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Forsyth & Co.: Patent Gunmakers, p.46

拍品專文

Cf. a similar gun in the W. Keith Neal Collection made by Fenton in about 1812 and fitted with Forsyth roller primer lock number 3249 in about 1826, ibid, p. 64, plates 67, 68 and 95