SIGNED ELVINS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
细节
A 16-Bore Percussion Sporting Gun
Signed Elvins, early 19th Century
Converted from flintlock, with rebrowned twist barrel engraved with a sunburst at the breech, patent breech with two gold lines (one incomplete), signed bevelled lock with roller, engraved tail and Forsyth-type hammer, figured walnut half-stock (fore-end cracked), engraved iron mounts, silver escutcheon and barrel-bolt escutcheons, horn fore-end cap, and associated brass-tipped ramrod (front ramrod-pipe loose, in worn condition), London proof marks
34¼in. (87cm.) barrel
Signed Elvins, early 19th Century
Converted from flintlock, with rebrowned twist barrel engraved with a sunburst at the breech, patent breech with two gold lines (one incomplete), signed bevelled lock with roller, engraved tail and Forsyth-type hammer, figured walnut half-stock (fore-end cracked), engraved iron mounts, silver escutcheon and barrel-bolt escutcheons, horn fore-end cap, and associated brass-tipped ramrod (front ramrod-pipe loose, in worn condition), London proof marks
34¼in. (87cm.) barrel
出版
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Forsyth & Co, p. 199, plates 113-14