with swamped barrel formed in two stages, the forward section of ‘hog’s back form, the breech octagonal and engraved with a pair of lines at each end, flat lock retained by two side nails passing through the lock plate and engaging the belt-hook bracket, fitted with external wheel retained by a circular bracket, safety-catch, sliding pan-cover with button release and dog with cross-hatched pivot, decorated throughout with pairs of lines en suite with the breech, full stock profusely inlaid over its surface in staghorn with scrolling tendrils enclosing ball flowers, a slender chevron frame over the fore-end and about the lock, compressed spherical butt decorated en suite and set with an engraved staghorn rondel decorated with a cavalryman, slender iron trigger-guard, slender iron belt-hook with acorn finial, engraved staghorn ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap, and wooden ramrod with engraved staghorn finial ensuite (fore-end repaired, a concealed crack behind the tang, the inlay with minor restorations, one barrel bolt washer missing), 56.0 cm overall

Provenance

Robert Brooker Collection inv.no. 547