A MASSIVE CASED L-BORE PERCUSSION PUNT GUN THE BARREL ALMOST CERTAINLY FORGED FOR COLONEL PETER HAWKER ON 13 OCTOBER, 1849, THE LOCK BY PURDEY Converted from tubelock, with rebrowned twist sighted barrel of exceptional length engraved at the breech 'Alfred Clayton. Lymington', '- Barrel By Clive -' and 'Iron Duke', large plain tang, signed blued back-action lock with safety-catch (hammer retaining screw missing), short figured wooden stock, brass mounts including barrel-bolt escutcheons (barrel-bolt missing) and fore-end plate, folding iron trigger pierced for a release cord, and brass-mounted copper ring for attachment to a stanchion: in brass-mounted oak case (minor damage) with brass carrying ring at each end, and containing a ramrod with brass-mounted iron worm, complete with canavs slip-cover and fitted wooden box containing percussion caps, shot and twelve cylindrical shot and powder charges each of tinned iron, the former painted black, the latter red, Birmingham proof marks 98in. (248.9cm.) barrel (3)
A MASSIVE CASED L-BORE PERCUSSION PUNT GUN THE BARREL ALMOST CERTAINLY FORGED FOR COLONEL PETER HAWKER ON 13 OCTOBER, 1849, THE LOCK BY PURDEY Converted from tubelock, with rebrowned twist sighted barrel of exceptional length engraved at the breech 'Alfred Clayton. Lymington', '- Barrel By Clive -' and 'Iron Duke', large plain tang, signed blued back-action lock with safety-catch (hammer retaining screw missing), short figured wooden stock, brass mounts including barrel-bolt escutcheons (barrel-bolt missing) and fore-end plate, folding iron trigger pierced for a release cord, and brass-mounted copper ring for attachment to a stanchion: in brass-mounted oak case (minor damage) with brass carrying ring at each end, and containing a ramrod with brass-mounted iron worm, complete with canavs slip-cover and fitted wooden box containing percussion caps, shot and twelve cylindrical shot and powder charges each of tinned iron, the former painted black, the latter red, Birmingham proof marks 98in. (248.9cm.) barrel (3)
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