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674 A CASED 15 BORE D.B. PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN BY GASQUOINE & DYSON, MARKET PLACE, MANCHESTER, NO. 1373, LONDON CIRCA 1860 with rebrowned barrels signed and numbered on the rib, engraved breech with platinum plugs, scroll-engraved grooved breech tang, signed scroll-engraved bar-in-wood locks decorated with differing game vignettes, highly figured walnut half-stock, chequered fore-end and grip, engraved steel mounts comprising numbered trigger-guard and butt-plate en suite with the locks, rear ramrod-pipe, vacant gold escutcheon, and brass-tipped ramrod: in a fitted mahogany case lined in green baize, the lid with modern trade label, and with some accessories including leather pouch with cleaning jags, powder-flask, shot-flask and oil bottle 75.6 cm; 29 ¾ in barrels £800-1000 675 A CASED 18 BORE D.B. PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN BY WILKINSON & SON, LONDON, NO. 1264, CIRCA 1850 with rebrowned barrels signed on the rib and numbered beneath the breeches, engraved breech with platinum plugs, scrollengraved grooved breech tang, signed scroll-engraved locks, figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip (rubbed), engraved steel mounts including trigger-guard with pineapple finial, vacant German silver escutcheon, and brass-tipped ramrod: in associated fitted mahogany case lined in green baize (worn), the lid with trade label for 1837-91 (stained, small holes), complete with some accessories including embossed copper flask by G. & J. W. Hawksley, wad-cutter and nipple-wrench 74.2 cm; 29 ¼ in barrels £800-1000
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