With tapering octagonal barrel flared at the muzzle and with two indistinct barrelsmith's marks on the top flat at the breech, tang engraved with ropework, flat lock with spur mark and safety-catch acting against an external spring with baluster terminal, manually operated sliding pan-cover, circular wheel-retaining bracket pierced and engraved with two monsters and secured by two screws, cock engraved en suite and acting against a chiselled spring with long baluster terminal, wooden full stock inlaid with white horn or bone scrolls and trefoils against a ground of dots and involving a staghunting scene opposite the lock, and panels either side of the tang each engraved with a male figure in contemporary costume, all within borders of ropework and running foliage, ball-pommel en suite segmented by bands engraved with repeated foliage and involving differing portrait medallions, circular white horn or bone cap engraved as a flower-head, faceted iron trigger-guard with central moulding, baluster trigger, engraved white horn or bone ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap, and wooden ramrod with tip en suite 22.5 cm. barrel
With tapering octagonal barrel flared at the muzzle and with two indistinct barrelsmith's marks on the top flat at the breech, tang engraved with ropework, flat lock with spur mark and safety-catch acting against an external spring with baluster terminal, manually operated sliding pan-cover, circular wheel-retaining bracket pierced and engraved with two monsters and secured by two screws, cock engraved en suite and acting against a chiselled spring with long baluster terminal, wooden full stock inlaid with white horn or bone scrolls and trefoils against a ground of dots and involving a staghunting scene opposite the lock, and panels either side of the tang each engraved with a male figure in contemporary costume, all within borders of ropework and running foliage, ball-pommel en suite segmented by bands engraved with repeated foliage and involving differing portrait medallions, circular white horn or bone cap engraved as a flower-head, faceted iron trigger-guard with central moulding, baluster trigger, engraved white horn or bone ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap, and wooden ramrod with tip en suite 22.5 cm. barrel
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