Beschreibung:

With swamped barrels each signed along the top flat and chased in bas-relief over most of their length with rocailles and foliage against a punched ground, the decoration including a trophy of arms and an arcaded border along each side from mid-point to the muzzle, gold-lined touch-holes, iron tangs engraved en suite with the barrels, rounded locks (one side-nail an old replacement) each with slender raised border and lip around the pan, fully hallmarked on the inside and signed within a foliated rococo cartouche on the outside, the tails engraved with a trophy of arms, engraved iron safety-catches, cocks and steels chiselled and engraved with foliage, the cocks also engraved on the back of the comb and on the top jaw, the steels each with roller bearing on a steel-spring with small acorn finial, engraved with a border of beadwork around the pan-covers and chiselled with a shell at the top, moulded figured full stocks carved in relief with shells, foliage and a trophy of arms at the barrel tang and inlaid with silver wire scrollwork and engraved silver flower-heads, the back of each butt (one expertly repaired) inlaid with an engraved silver Classical trophy below a small basket of flowers, the fore-ends (one with repaired split, the other with a minor chip on one side) cut with a double line border along each side and carved in relief with foliage and shells behind each rear ramrod-pipe, mounts in the French taste, cast and chased in relief with shells, scrolls, flowers and foliage, all on a fishroe ground and comprising shaped solid side-plates, escutcheons involving swags centred on a sacred heart and surmounted by a basket of flowers, spurred pommels inhabited by birds and with Diana and Actaeon on each side, both in Classical costume and in a landscape, ovoidal pommel-caps each centred on an eagle, trigger-guards, and gadrooned ramrod-pipes, scrolled triggers with a further scroll at the back, and original silver-tipped ramrods each with iron worm, Tower private proof marks and Heylin's barrelsmith's mark (2) 20.3 cm. barrels