A DUTCH D.B. FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE in the French taste, the twist sighted barrels with grooved rib and engraved tang, platinum vents, signed flat bevelled locks with rollers, each engraved with foliage on the tail, engraved cocks (one repaired), figured walnut half-stock (minor chips), chequered grip and fore-end each heightened with silver pins, carved cheekpiece, foliate engraved steel mounts including trigger-guard engraved with a stag in a landscape and with urn finial, butt-plate with a border of guilloche ornament and a goat at the heel, and turned ramrod-pipes, the rear one with pineapple finial, vacant silver escutcheon, and horn-tipped ramrod, by Jan Frank, Amsterdam, Liège proof, early 19th Century

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A DUTCH D.B. FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE in the French taste, the twist sighted barrels with grooved rib and engraved tang, platinum vents, signed flat bevelled locks with rollers, each engraved with foliage on the tail, engraved cocks (one repaired), figured walnut half-stock (minor chips), chequered grip and fore-end each heightened with silver pins, carved cheekpiece, foliate engraved steel mounts including trigger-guard engraved with a stag in a landscape and with urn finial, butt-plate with a border of guilloche ornament and a goat at the heel, and turned ramrod-pipes, the rear one with pineapple finial, vacant silver escutcheon, and horn-tipped ramrod, by Jan Frank, Amsterdam, Liège proof, early 19th Century
40 3/8in. barrels

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