Main Sale - March 2013 : Sale A1070 Lot 521
WILLIAM GREENER A SCARCE 12-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING-GUN, MODEL BEST QUALITY, serial no. 4736,

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WILLIAM GREENER
A SCARCE 12-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING-GUN, MODEL 'BEST QUALITY', serial no. 4736,
for 1856-58, the 28in. barrels signed 'WILLIAM GREENER, 42 ELY PLACE HOLBORN LONDON' and 'LAMINATED STEEL INDESTRUCTABLE TO GUNPOWDER' (both legends worn), a gamebird and scroll engraved to the rib-end, platinum plugs, border and scroll engraved bar-action locks with oval-framed vignettes of gamebirds to the tails, moulded platforms for the hammers, carved, scroll engraved hammers with scrolled noses (both spurs cracked), chequered walnut half-stock with silver shield-shaped escutcheon to wrist, iron furniture and replacement ramrod, the barrels badly worn, dark staining and loss to detail on the exposed iron surfaces

Other Notes: The address on the barrels is that of Daniel B. Harvey, William Greener's London agent

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Estimate £150-250