The first each with barrel with sighting flat, one engraved and cut with recessed panels at the breech, the other with inlaid silver decoration at the breech and spurious signature along the sighting flat, charateristic lightly engraved locks, full stocks and lemon-shaped pommels inlaid with white-metal wire scrollwork enriched with pieces of mother-of-pearl, all against a ground of pewter pellets and brass pins, exposed triggers, and no provision for ramrods; the second with plain barrel (worn), characteristic lock struck with a mark (one side-nail missing), silver full stock (repaired at the barrel tang) with curved butt and bulbous pommel all cast and chased with rough designs of foliage, muzzle-sleeve and white-metal trigger-guard en suite, the fore-stock embossed and chased with foliage (ramrod missing); the last with silver-inlaid decoration at the breech, foliate engraved flat bevelled lock, wooden full stock (damaged), the butt bound with white-metal wire and set with white-metal panels embossed and chased with foliage along the back, foliate engraved trigger-guard and spurred pommel, the latter with grotesque mask cap, side-plate pierced and chiselled as a foliate monster, white-metal muzzle-sleeve en suite, and false ramrod (worn overall) (4) 27 cm. to 33 cm. barrels
The first each with barrel with sighting flat, one engraved and cut with recessed panels at the breech, the other with inlaid silver decoration at the breech and spurious signature along the sighting flat, charateristic lightly engraved locks, full stocks and lemon-shaped pommels inlaid with white-metal wire scrollwork enriched with pieces of mother-of-pearl, all against a ground of pewter pellets and brass pins, exposed triggers, and no provision for ramrods; the second with plain barrel (worn), characteristic lock struck with a mark (one side-nail missing), silver full stock (repaired at the barrel tang) with curved butt and bulbous pommel all cast and chased with rough designs of foliage, muzzle-sleeve and white-metal trigger-guard en suite, the fore-stock embossed and chased with foliage (ramrod missing); the last with silver-inlaid decoration at the breech, foliate engraved flat bevelled lock, wooden full stock (damaged), the butt bound with white-metal wire and set with white-metal panels embossed and chased with foliage along the back, foliate engraved trigger-guard and spurred pommel, the latter with grotesque mask cap, side-plate pierced and chiselled as a foliate monster, white-metal muzzle-sleeve en suite, and false ramrod (worn overall) (4) 27 cm. to 33 cm. barrels
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