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A CONTINENTAL 38-BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE, UNSIGNED, no visible serial number,
Bohemian or German circa 1750, with slightly swamped octagonal 24 1/4in. barrel, brass shallow blade fore-sight mounted on a star ground, brass standing notch rear-sight with shaped foot and further folding leaf, engraved and pointed top-tang, bevel-edged lock with milled and stippled blacked-in panels leaving a raised and polished skeletal border, en-suite swan-necked cock, lozenge-shaped pan and frizzen, carved frizzen spring, gold-lined touch-hole, walnut full-stock with carved borderlines, raised floral scroll decoration behind the moulded cheek-piece and behind the top-tang (repaired crack through lock and right side of wrist), wooden lidded patchbox, the underside of butt with aperture for oversized ramrod handle (absent), brass heel-plate with complex spur, moulded wood trigger-guard inlet with a brass reinforcement strip, three lozenged brass thimbles and replacement ramrod
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Estimate £600-800