The first with iron barrel (pitted) chiselled at the breech and retained by a white-metal muzzle-sleeve incorporating a ramrod-pipe and embossed and chased with a trellised design and foliage, grooved tang, engraved flat bevelled lock, wooden full stock covered in pinned parcel-gilt white-metal (incomplete on the butt) embossed and chased with foliate scrollwork, butt with spurred pommel en suite, later brass trigger-guard cast with foliage and retained by twisted wire around the butt, and scrolled trigger (ramrod and barrel band missing); the second with two-stage russet barrel struck with two marks at the breech (tang repaired, cover missing), engraved flat bevelled lock with roller, heavy silver-gilt half-stock (fore-end mostly missing and now with later cast finial) with curved butt and bulbous pommel decorated overall with raised foliate panels nielloed with flower-heads and foliage between ribands and against a finely punched ground, the back of the butt with a stand of flags, the trigger-guard en suite (rear finial replaced, barrel and lock rust patinated) (2) 34 cm. and 26.7 cm. barrels
The first with iron barrel (pitted) chiselled at the breech and retained by a white-metal muzzle-sleeve incorporating a ramrod-pipe and embossed and chased with a trellised design and foliage, grooved tang, engraved flat bevelled lock, wooden full stock covered in pinned parcel-gilt white-metal (incomplete on the butt) embossed and chased with foliate scrollwork, butt with spurred pommel en suite, later brass trigger-guard cast with foliage and retained by twisted wire around the butt, and scrolled trigger (ramrod and barrel band missing); the second with two-stage russet barrel struck with two marks at the breech (tang repaired, cover missing), engraved flat bevelled lock with roller, heavy silver-gilt half-stock (fore-end mostly missing and now with later cast finial) with curved butt and bulbous pommel decorated overall with raised foliate panels nielloed with flower-heads and foliage between ribands and against a finely punched ground, the back of the butt with a stand of flags, the trigger-guard en suite (rear finial replaced, barrel and lock rust patinated) (2) 34 cm. and 26.7 cm. barrels
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