A 16 BORE HANOVERIAN D.B. PERCUSSION CAPE RIFLE BY TANNER IN HANNOVER, CIRCA 1830 with rebrowned twist sighted barrels, the right barrel rifled, signed in gold on the rib, engraved case-hardened breech decorated with scrolling foliage extending down each side and inlaid with gold lines, back-action locks chiselled with differing scenes involving hounds and stags, scroll-engraved hammers, set trigger for the rifled barrel, figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, raised cheek-piece, engraved steel mounts decorated en suite with the locks including trigger-guard and butt-plate, the latter engraved 'no.1988', vacant white metal escutcheon, white metal barrel bolt escutcheons, and brass-tipped wooden ramrod (the steel parts with areas of pitting) 76.8cm; 30 1/4in barrels Provenance The Crown Prince's Gunroom, Schloss Cumberland, Gmunden Schloss Marienburg