With slightly swamped vertically hinged octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, signed along the top flat at the breech, engraved with a band of foliage behind, and fitted with a reloadable iron cartridge equiped with pan, steel and steel-spring, back-sight with chiselled foliate finial, border engraved tang secured by two screws, rounded back-action lock with border engraved ovoidal flat within a waved border, cock en suite, moulded figured butt and fore-end (some splits and bruising, reinforced behind the tang with an oval plate), the former carved with foliage behind the barrel tang and forward of the cheek-piece, carved and fluted sliding patch-box cover, iron mounts comprising side-plate pierced and chased as a winged foliated monster, butt-plate with border engraved tang, the finial chiselled as a foliated grotesque mask, faceted border engraved trigger-guard with baluster finial, sprung barrel-release in front of the trigger, faceted baluster ramrod-pipes, the rear one with foliate finial, horn-tipped ramrod, probably original, and spare iron cartridge (2) 66.8 cm. barrel
With slightly swamped vertically hinged octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, signed along the top flat at the breech, engraved with a band of foliage behind, and fitted with a reloadable iron cartridge equiped with pan, steel and steel-spring, back-sight with chiselled foliate finial, border engraved tang secured by two screws, rounded back-action lock with border engraved ovoidal flat within a waved border, cock en suite, moulded figured butt and fore-end (some splits and bruising, reinforced behind the tang with an oval plate), the former carved with foliage behind the barrel tang and forward of the cheek-piece, carved and fluted sliding patch-box cover, iron mounts comprising side-plate pierced and chased as a winged foliated monster, butt-plate with border engraved tang, the finial chiselled as a foliated grotesque mask, faceted border engraved trigger-guard with baluster finial, sprung barrel-release in front of the trigger, faceted baluster ramrod-pipes, the rear one with foliate finial, horn-tipped ramrod, probably original, and spare iron cartridge (2) 66.8 cm. barrel
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