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PROPERTY OF THE LATE KENNETH JOHN HOLLOWAY<br />
461<br />
A SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY<br />
EDWARD (1) NORTH, LONDON, CIRCA 1750<br />
with two-stage barrel swamped at the muzzle and fitted<br />
with silver fore-sight, signed on a tapering flat at the breech<br />
and struck with London proof and the barrelsmith’s mark,<br />
engraved grooved barrel tang, signed rounded lock, figured<br />
walnut full stock carved with a scalloped moulding about<br />
the barrel tang (small cracks and repairs), silver mounts<br />
comprising side-plate pierced and chased with rococo<br />
flowers and foliage and escutcheon incorporating a<br />
hound’s head, engraved steel trigger-guard with acorn<br />
finial, engraved butt-plate, and later horn-tipped wooden<br />
ramrod<br />
107.3cm; 42D in barrel<br />
£2000-2500<br />
461<br />
462<br />
462<br />
A D.B. FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY JAMES SCOTT,<br />
CANONGATE, EDINBURGH, BIRMINGAM PRIVATE PROOF<br />
MARKS, CIRCA 1780<br />
with rebrowned two-stage barrels fitted with silver foresight,<br />
signed over the octagonal breeches and with goldlined<br />
vents, engraved grooved breech tang, signed<br />
bevelled locks engraved with scrolls on the tails, fitted with<br />
links between the steels and springs, and a sliding plate<br />
immediately behind the cock acting as a safety-catch (one<br />
comb, top-jaws and screws replaced), figured walnut halfstock<br />
cut with a trellis pattern of chequering filled with<br />
punched dots over the fore-end and the grip (refreshed,<br />
filled repairs over the fore-end and the butt), engraved steel<br />
mounts comprising trigger-guard decorated with a bouquet<br />
and with acorn finial, butt-plate, and fore-end cap, and<br />
horn-tipped wooden ramrod, perhaps the original (the<br />
mounts cleaned)<br />
86.5cm; 34B in barrels<br />
£1800-2200<br />
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