with octagonal white metal sighted barrels inscribed 'London' in gothic script within a scrollwork frame on the flats at the breech, scroll-engraved steel tangs inlaid with two German silver lines and fitted with German silver plug, scroll-engraved German silver tangs fitted with back-sights and extending in a slender panel engraved with wrigglework over the spine of the butt, signed engraved flush-fitting back-action locks (light pitting, one signature partly obscured), fitted with dolphin hammers engraved en suite, figured half-stocks (one fore-end with small cracks), chequered rounded butts, engraved German silver mounts comprising trigger-guards (one repaired on the rear strap) and butt-caps with hinged circular engraved steel covers, barrel bolt escutcheons (one barrel bolt missing) and fore-end caps, and brass-tipped ramrods with iron worm, probably the original (one repaired): in a later lined and fitted case with embossed copper flask decorated with a scallop shell, 15.7 cm barrels (2)

William Chance, Son & Co. are recorded in London circa 1842 and 1856 as 'American merchants'. Their main premises were at 152 Great Charles Street, Birmingham, though they marked their guns London. Between 1835 and 1845 they supplied the American Fur Company with 'Chiefs and North West' guns.