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BY JOHN INNES, PLYMOUTH, EXETER SILVER HALLMARKS FOR 1783 (?)
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An Unusual 38-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Sporting Rifle
By John Innes, Plymouth, Exeter silver hallmarks for 1783 (?)
With browned two-stage sighted barrel cut with seven grooves and signed in a gold oval at the breech, gold breech line and gold-lined touch-hole, engraved tang, signed bevelled lock with stepped tail, roller and rainproof pan (cock retaining screw replaced), figured walnut half-stock (cracked below the lock), chequered grip, engraved silver mounts including trigger-guard with pineapple finial, horn fore-end cap, silver-mounted sliding patch-box cover, and iron ramrod, London proof marks, silver maker's mark JH, probably for Jason Holt
32in. (81.9cm.) barrel
By John Innes, Plymouth, Exeter silver hallmarks for 1783 (?)
With browned two-stage sighted barrel cut with seven grooves and signed in a gold oval at the breech, gold breech line and gold-lined touch-hole, engraved tang, signed bevelled lock with stepped tail, roller and rainproof pan (cock retaining screw replaced), figured walnut half-stock (cracked below the lock), chequered grip, engraved silver mounts including trigger-guard with pineapple finial, horn fore-end cap, silver-mounted sliding patch-box cover, and iron ramrod, London proof marks, silver maker's mark JH, probably for Jason Holt
32in. (81.9cm.) barrel