With octagonal barrels retaining much of their original blueing, the upper barrel signed in gold between decorative gold marks and with silver fore-sight, the breech with engraved gold clouds in front of a gold line, the lower barrel engraved in script with the address and with two gold lines, platinum-lined touch-holes, tang with back-sight and engraved case-hardened locks each decorated with a starburst behind the semi-rainproof pan and with foliage at the stepped tail, safety-catches, foliate engraved 'French' cocks, and blued external mainsprings each with roller, chequered figured rounded butt, silver D-shaped trigger-guard decorated with a martial trophy and foliage on the border engraved bow, spurred pommel decorated with baskets of foliage en suite within a border of ropework, vacant gold pommel-cap, small vacant gold escutcheon, original steel ramrod with characteristically chequered tip, and some original finish 8.2 cm. barrels
With octagonal barrels retaining much of their original blueing, the upper barrel signed in gold between decorative gold marks and with silver fore-sight, the breech with engraved gold clouds in front of a gold line, the lower barrel engraved in script with the address and with two gold lines, platinum-lined touch-holes, tang with back-sight and engraved case-hardened locks each decorated with a starburst behind the semi-rainproof pan and with foliage at the stepped tail, safety-catches, foliate engraved 'French' cocks, and blued external mainsprings each with roller, chequered figured rounded butt, silver D-shaped trigger-guard decorated with a martial trophy and foliage on the border engraved bow, spurred pommel decorated with baskets of foliage en suite within a border of ropework, vacant gold pommel-cap, small vacant gold escutcheon, original steel ramrod with characteristically chequered tip, and some original finish 8.2 cm. barrels
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