Product Details
A GOOD CASED 12-BORE DOUBLE BARRELLED PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN BY JOHN WALLIS, CIRCA 1859, serial no. 9012,
with 30in. London proofed browned twist barrels, the concave top rib engraved with the makers name, 'JOHN WALLIS GUN MAKERS, 116 JERMYN STREET, LONDON', the breeches with platinum plugs, bar-action locks both finely engraved with foliate scroll work and hunting scenes featuring dogs and game birds, the makers name engraved in a circular fashion beneath the hammers and following their curvature, the hammers profusely foliate engraved to match the lock-plates, all with much original colour, figured walnut half-stock with chequered wrist and fore-end, the iron mounts including trigger-guard and butt-plate decorated with foliate scrolls and scenes of game birds and hunting, together with the guns serial number '9012', the rammer fore-pipe with foliate scrolls alone, the mounts have most of their original charcoal blue finish, contained in its original brass bound green baize lined and partitioned mahogany case, the lid with a large Samuel Nock trade-label, having the 116 Jermyn St. address, accessories include an embossed copper bodied powder flask, brass mounted leather shot flask, a mainspring cramp with full case colours, a nipple key with pricker, white metal oil bottle and laquered Eley cap tin, the case and accessories all excellent
Provenance: The maker John Wallis was the son of W. R. Wallis who purchased Manton & Co. Calcutta and whose London office was 116 Jermyn St. London. The business of Samuel Nock was continued after his death in 1852 by his executors at 116 Jermyn St. between 1853 and 1858, then by John Wallis who also traded under the name of Samuel Nock
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Estimate £1,000-1,500