with heavy octagonal barrel rifled with seven grooves, fitted with silver blade fore-sight, standing back-sight, stamped with the gold-lined barrelsmith’s mark ‘William Gardner’ at the breech and inlaid with two gold lines, gold-lined vent, engraved grooved breech tang, stepped bevelled lock signed ‘Squire & Co.’ in block capitals, engraved with border ornament, a trophy-of-music on the tail, and a sunburst, fitted with engraved cock, rainproof pan, engraved steel and steel spring with roller, the inside stamped ‘WA’, close-grained figured full stock with take-down fore-end, finely chequered grip, the butt with raised cheek-piece on the left enriched with an inlaid silver star above and a pierced silver panel beneath, and, on the right, with patch box with hinged brass cover on a skeleton mount, the cover operated by a button beneath, brass mounts comprising curved butt-plate with faceted tang (the upper terminal slightly bent, trigger-guard with faceted terminal four ramrod-pipes and fore-end cap, silver vestigial side-plate, silver diamond-shaped barrel bolt escutcheons vacant silver escutcheon, some original finish, and original horn-tipped wooden ramrod, 103.7 cm barrel