With swamped barrels each signed along the top flat and chased in bas-relief over most of their length with rocailles and foliage against a punched ground, the decoration including a trophy of arms and an arcaded border along each side from mid-point to the muzzle, gold-lined touch-holes, iron tangs engraved en suite with the barrels, rounded locks (one side-nail an old replacement) each with slender raised border and lip around the pan, fully hallmarked on the inside and signed within a foliated rococo cartouche on the outside, the tails engraved with a trophy of arms, engraved iron safety-catches, cocks and steels chiselled and engraved with foliage, the cocks also engraved on the back of the comb and on the top jaw, the steels each with roller bearing on a steel-spring with small acorn finial, engraved with a border of beadwork around the pan-covers and chiselled with a shell at the top, moulded figured full stocks carved in relief with shells, foliage and a trophy of arms at the barrel tang and inlaid with silver wire scrollwork and engraved silver flower-heads, the back of each butt (one expertly repaired) inlaid with an engraved silver Classical trophy below a small basket of flowers, the fore-ends (one with repaired split, the other with a minor chip on one side) cut with a double line border along each side and carved in relief with foliage and shells behind each rear ramrod-pipe, mounts in the French taste, cast and chased in relief with shells, scrolls, flowers and foliage, all on a fishroe ground and comprising shaped solid side-plates, escutcheons involving swags centred on a sacred heart and surmounted by a basket of flowers, spurred pommels inhabited by birds and with Diana and Actaeon on each side, both in Classical costume and in a landscape, ovoidal pommel-caps each centred on an eagle, trigger-guards, and gadrooned ramrod-pipes, scrolled triggers with a further scroll at the back, and original silver-tipped ramrods each with iron worm, Tower private proof marks and Heylin's barrelsmith's mark (2) 20.3 cm. barrels
With swamped barrels each signed along the top flat and chased in bas-relief over most of their length with rocailles and foliage against a punched ground, the decoration including a trophy of arms and an arcaded border along each side from mid-point to the muzzle, gold-lined touch-holes, iron tangs engraved en suite with the barrels, rounded locks (one side-nail an old replacement) each with slender raised border and lip around the pan, fully hallmarked on the inside and signed within a foliated rococo cartouche on the outside, the tails engraved with a trophy of arms, engraved iron safety-catches, cocks and steels chiselled and engraved with foliage, the cocks also engraved on the back of the comb and on the top jaw, the steels each with roller bearing on a steel-spring with small acorn finial, engraved with a border of beadwork around the pan-covers and chiselled with a shell at the top, moulded figured full stocks carved in relief with shells, foliage and a trophy of arms at the barrel tang and inlaid with silver wire scrollwork and engraved silver flower-heads, the back of each butt (one expertly repaired) inlaid with an engraved silver Classical trophy below a small basket of flowers, the fore-ends (one with repaired split, the other with a minor chip on one side) cut with a double line border along each side and carved in relief with foliage and shells behind each rear ramrod-pipe, mounts in the French taste, cast and chased in relief with shells, scrolls, flowers and foliage, all on a fishroe ground and comprising shaped solid side-plates, escutcheons involving swags centred on a sacred heart and surmounted by a basket of flowers, spurred pommels inhabited by birds and with Diana and Actaeon on each side, both in Classical costume and in a landscape, ovoidal pommel-caps each centred on an eagle, trigger-guards, and gadrooned ramrod-pipes, scrolled triggers with a further scroll at the back, and original silver-tipped ramrods each with iron worm, Tower private proof marks and Heylin's barrelsmith's mark (2) 20.3 cm. barrels
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