Product Details
A 14-BORE (PINFIRE) DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING GUN SIGNED JOSEPH EGG, no visible serial number,
circa 1800, converted from a muzzle-loader, with twist iron 26 1/2in. barrels, the raised top-rib signed 'JOSEPH EGG, No.1 PICCADDILLY (sic), LONDON', engraved band at breech and scroll engraving to rib-end, shallow fences to action and fully engraved top-tang, bar action locks with clipped tails and engraved with borderlines and acanthus leaf scrolls and signed 'JOS'H EGG' (refreshed, both locks almost certainly re-engraved), engraved dolphin headed hammers, walnut straight hand butt-stock chequered at the wrist and fitted with engraved iron furniture including grip safe to the lower tang, engraved action body with Jones type swing under-lever and chequered walnut splinter fore-end
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Estimate £300-500
Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament