with slightly swamped barrels signed on the top flats within an engraved border drawn-out to a hatched and foliate terminal over the breeches, struck with proof marks and the barrelsmith's mark on the left, fitted with silver fore-sights chased with foliage, engraved tangs decorated with rococo scallops and foliage, signed rounded locks with slender raised borders, rounded cocks en suite, moulded highly figured full stocks (small repairs) carved with a raised moulding involving a shell behind the barrel tangs, silver mounts cast and chased in low relief comprising spurred pommels with engraved spurs and flowerhead caps, pierced side-plates decorated en rocaille, trigger-guards with scallop shell finials and engraved with rococo shells and foliage on the bows, vacant rococo escutcheons, and moulded baluster ramrod-pipes (later silver-tipped ramrods, the iron parts with light patination), 25.8 cm. barrels

Provenance

Bonhams, Knightsbridge, 22nd April 2009, lot 339

William 2 Turvey was apprenticed to George Turvey in 1742, and free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1750.