A VERY RARE 25-BORE BREECH-LOADING FLINTLOCK RIFLE BY HARMAN BARNE, LONDON, CIRCA 1660 With sighted two-stage barrel with pronounced muzzle ring (replaced) and cut with eight grooves, hinged horizontally at the breech and released by depressing the front of the trigger-guard, the hinge with sprung flange engraved with a wildfowler, reloadable iron cartridge with touch-hole, rounded back-action lock engraved with scrollwork and a demon smoking a pipe and signed within a swirl of smoke, the steel with engraved priming magazine and chiselled details, the action with long top-strap, and shaped side-plate with applied short belt hook, moulded walnut butt, short fore-end (repaired), and iron mounts including butt-plate with long tang (iron parts lightly pitted, belt hook and parts of the action replaced) 27¾in. barrel
A VERY RARE 25-BORE BREECH-LOADING FLINTLOCK RIFLE BY HARMAN BARNE, LONDON, CIRCA 1660 With sighted two-stage barrel with pronounced muzzle ring (replaced) and cut with eight grooves, hinged horizontally at the breech and released by depressing the front of the trigger-guard, the hinge with sprung flange engraved with a wildfowler, reloadable iron cartridge with touch-hole, rounded back-action lock engraved with scrollwork and a demon smoking a pipe and signed within a swirl of smoke, the steel with engraved priming magazine and chiselled details, the action with long top-strap, and shaped side-plate with applied short belt hook, moulded walnut butt, short fore-end (repaired), and iron mounts including butt-plate with long tang (iron parts lightly pitted, belt hook and parts of the action replaced) 27¾in. barrel
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