Product Details
FORSYTH & CO., LONDON
A 14-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING GUN, serial no. 4059,
circa 1835, with well rebrowned 29 1/2in. barrels, the raised top-rib signed 'FORSYTH & CO PATENT GUN MAKERS, LONDON', the underside of breech with serial number and barrel forger's mark 'T.P' (for Thomas Parkin of 5 Meard's Court, Soho), moulded nipple-wells, engraved platinum vented plugs, borderline and scroll engraved top-tang extending to tip of comb also featuring a game bird and inlet with a gold rectangular escutcheon engraved 'W.P', borderline, scroll and gamescene engraved radiused back-action locks flaring outwards at the front and signed 'FORSYTH & CO PATENT' below the engraved dolphin headed hammers, moulded hammer breast stops, walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist, iron furniture (lightly rubbed of engraved detail) including ramrod throat extending for the full length of the fore-end and working replacement brass mounted ramrod
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Estimate £800-1,200