Description
ENGLISH PERCUSSION DOUBLE BARREL SMOOTH BORE BIG GAME RIFLE
CIRCA 1840
the engraved locks with sliding safeties (some minor rat damage at the lock), signed John Blisset, the elegant shaped cocks with chequered tops, platinum vents at the breech the large bore double Damascus barrels signed JOHN BLISSET 322 High Holborn on the rib, silver foresight, dark walnut stock with chequered grip (rat damage) and fore-end, serial number 4055 on trigger guard, engraved patch box containing patches, blank silver escutcheon and with its original ebony ramrod with brass tip
43in. (109cm) long, 10 bore
Provenance:
Ex armoury of the Nizam of Hyderabad.