Beschreibung:

With browned twist octagonal sighted barrel signed in full along the top flat at the breech and rifled with seven grooves, the rifling in fine condition, engraved 'Patent No. 80 Gauge 451.' in front of the blued folding adjustable back-sight calibrated to 1300 yards, and matted beyond to the blued windage adjustable fore-sight engraved 'Henry's Pat No. 29', foliate scroll engraved case-hardened breech with platinum plug and engraved with a tiger's head on top, foliate scroll engraved case-hardened tang and signed detented lock, the latter decorated with a stag in a landscape and with a tiger on the tail beneath the engraved safety-catch, foliate scroll engraved dolphin hammer, highly figured half-stock (minor bruising) with chequered pistol-grip and fore-end, the former with foliate scroll engraved case-hardened ovoidal pommel-cap with hinged circular butt-trap cover, foliate scroll engraved steel mounts comprising butt-plate, case-hardened hinged circular patch-box cover decorated with a stag in a landscape within a guilloche border and opening to reveal an indistinct owner's name inscribed in ink, trigger-guard with a lion in a landscape on the bow and retaining some blueing on the inside, trigger-plate with foliate scroll engraved pineapple-shaped finial, chequered trigger, vacant silver escutcheon, horn fore-end cap, sling loops, original brass-mounted ramrod, and much of its original finish, London proof marks 82 cm. barrel