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Lot 169

A 14-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Wm. Moore, London, Early 19th Century

10 November 2022, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £765 inc. premium

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A 14-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Wm. Moore, London, Early 19th Century

With twist sighted barrel (some old pitting beneath the breech) engraved with a starburst forward of he tapering sighting groove along the top flat, breech with rectangular gold-lined maker's stamp, gold line and platinum-lined touch-hole, tang engraved with foliate borders, decorated with a hare in a landscape, and with a starburst in the sighting groove, signed border engraved flat bevelled lock decorated with a palm tree behind the rainproof pan and with a bird and basket of fruit at the stepped tail, foliate engraved ring-neck cock, and roller, figured half-stock (some scattered filled old worming) with chequered grip, border engraved steel mounts (light rust patination) comprising butt-plate decorated with a martial trophy on the heel tang, scroll trigger-guard with a further martial trophy on the bow, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, silver fore-end cap also forming the rear ramrod-pipe and engraved with a starburst, vacant silver escutcheon and barrel-bolt escutcheons, and original horn-tipped ramrod with iron worm, London proof marks
84.6 cm. barrel

Footnotes

William 3 Moore ('a very ingenious workman and an excellent shot') is recorded at 118 Whitechapel, London in 1808, Colchester Street between 1818 and 1852, and at 78 Edgware Road, between 1828 and 1846. He was appointed Gunmaker-in-Ordinary to William IV in 1836

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