AN 8 BORE PERCUSSION WILDFOWLING GUN BY GEORGE WALLIS JUNIOR, GUNMAKER, HULL, CIRCA 1830 with sig

AN 8 BORE PERCUSSION WILDFOWLING GUN BY GEORGE WALLIS JUNIOR, GUNMAKER, HULL, CIRCA 1830 with signed browned twist sighted barrel formed in three stages, engraved breech decorated with a duck, inlaid with two platinum lines and fitted with screw-in bolster, scroll-engraved breech tang, signed scroll and border-engraved lock decorated with a dog putting up a pair of duck, figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip (rubbed), engraved steel mounts including trigger-guard en suite with the lock (butt-cap worn, tang lifting), vacant silver escutcheon, silver barrel bolt escutcheons, horn fore-end cap, and brass-tipped wooden ramrod, probably the original 107.2cm; 42 1/4in barrel George Wallis Junior was the son of the gunmaker of the same name, a distinguished gunmaker and antiquary who assisted William Constable of Burton Constable Hall with the maintenance of his magnificent collection. See A. G. Credland 1978 pp. 133-181.