With heavy two-stage barrel with three transverse mouldings and incised with a spray of acanthus foliage at the rear of the octagonal breech section, long tang incised en suite, large flat lock with shaped bevelled border, incised with a monster and foliage, engraved with bands of overlapping scales, and chiselled in relief with grotesque masks, chiselled wheel-retaining ring incorporating two addorsed winged putti, chiselled cock, the jaws in the form of a monster-head, and engraved and chiselled manually operated pan-cover, figured walnut full stock incised with double lines and carved down the spine of the 'fish-tail' butt with a panel of guilloche ornament, and around the pommel and below the lock with acanthus foliage, all the carving set against a punched ground, spoon-shaped iron trigger-guard engraved en suite with the lock, shaped iron butt-plate retained by tacks, long iron belt hook, iron fore-end band, and later wooden ramrod 43.2 cm.
With heavy two-stage barrel with three transverse mouldings and incised with a spray of acanthus foliage at the rear of the octagonal breech section, long tang incised en suite, large flat lock with shaped bevelled border, incised with a monster and foliage, engraved with bands of overlapping scales, and chiselled in relief with grotesque masks, chiselled wheel-retaining ring incorporating two addorsed winged putti, chiselled cock, the jaws in the form of a monster-head, and engraved and chiselled manually operated pan-cover, figured walnut full stock incised with double lines and carved down the spine of the 'fish-tail' butt with a panel of guilloche ornament, and around the pommel and below the lock with acanthus foliage, all the carving set against a punched ground, spoon-shaped iron trigger-guard engraved en suite with the lock, shaped iron butt-plate retained by tacks, long iron belt hook, iron fore-end band, and later wooden ramrod 43.2 cm.
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