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A 14 BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY HARVEY WALKLATE MORTIMER, LONDON, GUNMAKER TO HIS MAJESTY, NO. 5
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A 14 BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY HARVEY WALKLATE MORTIMER, LONDON, GUNMAKER TO HIS MAJESTY, NO. 519, CIRCA 1790 with rebrowned sighted barrel formed in three stages, signed in a platinum-lined oval and inscribed ~Gunmaker to his Majesty~ over the breech (rubbed, indistinct), with two platinum lines, platinum vent and struck with proof marks and the barrelsmith~s mark beneath, finely engraved tang, border-engraved lock signed beneath the rainproof pan, engraved with a game bird on the tail and inscribed ~89 Fleet Street~, fitted with a roller on the steel and the steel spring, the latter with a tension-adjusting screw acting on a lug (cock repaired), figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, iron mounts comprising trigger-guard with pineapple finial, butt-plate and ramrod-pipes, vacant silver escutcheon, silver fore-end cap and silver barrel bolt escutcheons and brass tipped wooden ramrod (the iron parts with areas of pitting) 78.8 cm; 31 in barrel
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A 14 BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY HARVEY WALKLATE MORTIMER, LONDON, GUNMAKER TO HIS MAJESTY, NO. 519, CIRCA 1790 with rebrowned sighted barrel formed in three stages, signed in a platinum-lined oval and inscribed ~Gunmaker to his Majesty~ over the breech (rubbed, indistinct), with two platinum lines, platinum vent and struck with proof marks and the barrelsmith~s mark beneath, finely engraved tang, border-engraved lock signed beneath the rainproof pan, engraved with a game bird on the tail and inscribed ~89 Fleet Street~, fitted with a roller on the steel and the steel spring, the latter with a tension-adjusting screw acting on a lug (cock repaired), figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, iron mounts comprising trigger-guard with pineapple finial, butt-plate and ramrod-pipes, vacant silver escutcheon, silver fore-end cap and silver barrel bolt escutcheons and brass tipped wooden ramrod (the iron parts with areas of pitting) 78.8 cm; 31 in barrel
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