Description
ENGLISH DOUBLE BARREL PERCUSSION LIVE PIGEON GUN
CIRCA 1840
the engraved locks signed C LANCASTER No 1750 on trigger guard. blank gold shield, silver oval engraved with a family crest of a bird surmounting a castle, signed on the top rib of the brown Damascus barrels CHARLES LANCASTER 151 NEW BOND STREET, barrel tang engraved, butt plate tang with a spaniel chasing a pheasant the trigger guard with acorn finial engraved with pointers, a pheasant and serial number 1750, well figured walnut half stock with chequered grip and fore-end and with steel barrel bolt retaining escutcheons, no provision for a ramrod
42in. (106cm), 11 bore