Product Details
AN 8-BORE PERCUSSION FOWLING PIECE SIGNED CHARLES FISHER LONDON, FROM MANTONS, serial no. 178,
circa 1827, with octagonal to sixteen-sided to round 32 1/2in. barrel, turned girdle, bead fore-sight, the top-flat near breech signed in script 'CHARLES FISHER PRINCES STR'T, LEICESTER SQUARE LONDON. FROM MANTONS.', the breech-block inlaid with twin platinum lines and engraved with panels of gamebirds on the flats, vented platinum plug to the moulded snail, border and scroll engraved top-tang, border and scroll engraved bar-action lock, the signature 'CHARLES FISHER LONDON' following the top edge of the lock forwards of the dolphin headed hammer and down onto the upper edge of the bar, maple (possibly) half-stock chequered at the wrist (historic shake to left side of wrist), iron furniture, clipped corner rectangular escutcheon initialled 'R.P.R.' behind top-tang, a further 'toe' escutcheon with the same initials and brass tipped under-barrel ramrod
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Estimate £800-1,200