With octagonal sighted barrel signed along the top flat and rifled with twelve spiral grooves, folding leaf-sights each with central gold line, border engraved breech with pierced platinum plug and engraved with a scallop shell on the flat, border engraved tang decorated with foliage, signed border engraved serial numbered case-hardened flat detented lock (side-nail replaced) decorated with foliate scrolls and with a prone stag on the tail, dolphin hammer engraved with foliage en suite, figured half-stock (butt expertly repaired on one side following the fire at Inveraray Castle) with chequered grip, dark horn fore-end cap, border engraved steel mounts retaining some blueing and comprising butt-plate with foliage and a shell on the heel tang, trigger-guard serial numbered on the spur and decorated with a running boar in a landscape on the bow, trigger-plate with foliage on the finial, and hinged rectangular patch-box cover with a stag in a landscape, set trigger, silver escutcheon engraved with owner's crest and motto, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, sling mounts, and replacement horn-tipped ramrod, Birmingham proof marks
72.7 cm. barrel

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Provenance
The Dukes of Argyll, Inveraray Castle

The crest and motto is in Scottish style. The motto is a response to the chief of Clan's motto, on this occasion the Clan Campbells, whose chief is the Duke of Argyll. The form of crest and motto is likely to be due to the reconciliation of the Scots during the acceptance of Clan practices that began in the 1820s and gained further momentum during the reign of Queen Victoria

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