Product Details
A 16-BORE DOUBLE-BARRELLED PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN BY F. BARNES WITH GRIP SAFETY, CIRCA 1855, no visible serial number,
with 30in. professionally rebrowned twist barrels, the top rib engraved 'F. BARNES & CO. LONDON', the breech engraved with a gamebird and with two inset platinum silver bands, nipple bolsters with vented platinum plugs, fixed breech with a long tang profusely foliate scroll engraved with a pheasant in a tree at the top, engraved back-action locks, both with banded edge decoration and the makers name 'F. BARNES & CO' in a curling ribbon surrounded by quality foliate scroll work, the right lock engraved with a country scene featuring a pointer and partridge and the left lock a similar hunting scene of a spaniel and a pheasant, the hammers foliate scroll engraved to match, walnut half-stocked with chequered wrist, (inlet repair at toe) and fitted with foliate engraved iron mounts with a grip safety bar, complete with original loading rod
Provenance: The maker was the long established Frederick Barnes a sword cutler and wholesale gun-maker established from 1825 at 103 & 109 Fenchurch St, 3 Union Row, and Tower Hill London, also had premises in Birmingham and Sheffield. Became Frederick & Co. in 1851 and exhibited at the Great Exhibition 1851
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Estimate £600-800