Made for a youth, with long slightly swamped slender barrel, the octagonal breech section finely encrusted with silver scrollwork, strapwork, pellets and flowerheads, the forward section inlaid in silver with running symmetrical oval and heart-shaped designs enclosing engraved silver foliage (some losses), all against a background of engraved strapwork, and with silver fore-sight, silver-inlaid rectangular tang set within a shaped brass apron chased in low relief with silvered scrollwork and flowerheads and retained by brass nails, rounded lock chiselled in low relief with scrollwork picked out in silver and surrounded by an engraved brass panel retained by brass nails, moulded hardwood full stock, the butt with high comb (toe with minor damage), brass mounts mostly chased with scrollwork in relief, partly picked out in silver, shaped solid side-plate involving silvered flowerheads and fitted with two brass rings for suspension, four silver-encrusted brass baluster ramrod-pipes, brass and silver fore-end cap, and iron ramrod (tip missing), the external screws mostly with large domed brass-covered heads (some wear to metal parts) 110.5 cm. barrel
Made for a youth, with long slightly swamped slender barrel, the octagonal breech section finely encrusted with silver scrollwork, strapwork, pellets and flowerheads, the forward section inlaid in silver with running symmetrical oval and heart-shaped designs enclosing engraved silver foliage (some losses), all against a background of engraved strapwork, and with silver fore-sight, silver-inlaid rectangular tang set within a shaped brass apron chased in low relief with silvered scrollwork and flowerheads and retained by brass nails, rounded lock chiselled in low relief with scrollwork picked out in silver and surrounded by an engraved brass panel retained by brass nails, moulded hardwood full stock, the butt with high comb (toe with minor damage), brass mounts mostly chased with scrollwork in relief, partly picked out in silver, shaped solid side-plate involving silvered flowerheads and fitted with two brass rings for suspension, four silver-encrusted brass baluster ramrod-pipes, brass and silver fore-end cap, and iron ramrod (tip missing), the external screws mostly with large domed brass-covered heads (some wear to metal parts) 110.5 cm. barrel
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