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A 12-Bore Percussion Sporting Gun
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A 12-Bore Percussion Sporting Gun By Thos. Horsley, Maker, York, No. 928, Mid-19th Century With rebrowned twist three-stage sighted barrel with turned girdle, octagonal breech becoming polygonal and signed in capitals along the top flat, border engraved case-hardened patent breech decorated with foliate scrollwork on the top flat and bolster, foliate scroll engraved tang, border engraved flat cock signed in capitals and with dolphin hammer, figured half-stock (some old bruising) with chequered grip and fore-end, the latter with dark horn cap, border engraved steel mounts decorated with foliate scrollwork and comprising butt-plate and serial numbered trigger-guard, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, vacant silver escutcheon, and original brass-mounted ramrod, Birmingham proof marks 82.2 cm. barrel Footnotes: Thomas Horsley is recorded at 48 Coney Street, York, Yorkshire between 1833 and 1870. He is famous for his drop-down barrel breech-loading action for which he was granted British Patent No. 374 on 12 February 1862, and for another, No. 2410, on 1 October 1863, both of which were commercially produced For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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A 12-Bore Percussion Sporting Gun By Thos. Horsley, Maker, York, No. 928, Mid-19th Century With rebrowned twist three-stage sighted barrel with turned girdle, octagonal breech becoming polygonal and signed in capitals along the top flat, border engraved case-hardened patent breech decorated with foliate scrollwork on the top flat and bolster, foliate scroll engraved tang, border engraved flat cock signed in capitals and with dolphin hammer, figured half-stock (some old bruising) with chequered grip and fore-end, the latter with dark horn cap, border engraved steel mounts decorated with foliate scrollwork and comprising butt-plate and serial numbered trigger-guard, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, vacant silver escutcheon, and original brass-mounted ramrod, Birmingham proof marks 82.2 cm. barrel Footnotes: Thomas Horsley is recorded at 48 Coney Street, York, Yorkshire between 1833 and 1870. He is famous for his drop-down barrel breech-loading action for which he was granted British Patent No. 374 on 12 February 1862, and for another, No. 2410, on 1 October 1863, both of which were commercially produced For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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