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AN 80-BORE PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLE BY JAMES SQUIRES, LONDON, circa 1850, with 25 3/4in. octagonal signed sighted barrel rifled with four grooves and engraved with a band of foliage at the muzzle, breech with platinum plug and engraved with a fox-mask, scroll engraved tang and signed bolted lock, figured walnut half-stock (numerous repairs) with chequered grip and fore-end, scroll engraved iron mounts including trigger-plate with pineapple finial, silver shield-shaped escutcheon and barrel-bolt escutcheons, later horn fore-end cap and bone-tipped ramrod, London proof marks.
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AN 80-BORE PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLE BY JAMES SQUIRES, LONDON, circa 1850, with 25 3/4in. octagonal signed sighted barrel rifled with four grooves and engraved with a band of foliage at the muzzle, breech with platinum plug and engraved with a fox-mask, scroll engraved tang and signed bolted lock, figured walnut half-stock (numerous repairs) with chequered grip and fore-end, scroll engraved iron mounts including trigger-plate with pineapple finial, silver shield-shaped escutcheon and barrel-bolt escutcheons, later horn fore-end cap and bone-tipped ramrod, London proof marks.
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