with copper alloy barrel formed swelling towards the muzzle, octagonal breech section engraved en rocaille, inscribed London on the flat and struck with proof marks on the left, engraved iron tang, flat bevelled lock signed in an oval beneath a bouquet and engraved with border ornament, full stock (fore-end chipped), engraved copper alloy mounts comprising butt-plate engraved with foliage on the tang, trigger-guard decorated with a rococo flower on the bow and with pineapple finial (chipped), a single moulded ramrod-pipe, and brass-tipped wooden ramrod, perhaps the original, 65.2 cm overall

Perhaps by James Sturman Searles gunmaker and springmaker recorded circa 1792-1824. His trade label of 1803 advertised a ‘Telegraph Game Gun, [that] gives the Earliest Intelligence at the Approach of Thieves and may at Will prove fatal….may be hung…outside camps in Foreign Countries, Wild beasts destroy themselves and make Food for the Army.’