Fine Modern & Antique Guns - March 2016 : Sale A0316 Lot 504
R.T. WYLLIE, AUCHINLECK A GOOD 8-BORE PERCUSSION SINGLE-BARRELLED FOWLING-PIECE OR PIGEON-GUN, no visible serial number,

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R.T. WYLLIE, AUCHINLECK
A GOOD 8-BORE PERCUSSION SINGLE-BARRELLED FOWLING-PIECE OR PIGEON-GUN, no visible serial number,
circa 1860, with browned twist-iron, round, 30 1/2in. barrel, three short ribs at breech, the top signed 'AUCHINLECK' and terminating in an engraved needle topped with a flourish of scrolls, bead fore-sight, scroll engraved breech-block inlet with a gold line (traces of colour), carved percussion fence, borderline and scroll engraved long ball-ended top-tang, borderline and scroll engraved back-action lock signed within a banner 'ROB T. WYLLIE', walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist, iron heel-plate with long engraved top-spur, engraved bottom tang with game-birds to the trigger-guard bow, white-metal fore-end tip and iron ramrod thimbles and bottom rib, complete with its original brass mounted heavy duty under-barrel ramrod with worm-screw tip

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Estimate £1,500-2,500