LONDON, MID-19TH CENTURY

with twist sighted barrels each engraved LONDON along the top flat and retaining much of the original browning along the bottom, border engraved case-hardened breeches decorated with foliate scrolls, tangs each with back-sight and decorated en suite, signed locks each with safety-catch, dolphin hammers and flat ovoidal butt-caps all en suite, the last each with hinged circular butt-trap cover, figured full stocks each with dark horn fore-end cap, chequered rounded butts each with spur flat along the top, blued trigger-guards each with foliate scrollwork on the border engraved bow and a scallop shell on the pineapple-shaped finial, belt hooks retaining some blueing (one with a patch of pitting), silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, stirrup ramrods each acting against a retaining spring and engraved with a flower-head on the tip, and retaining some original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories including powder-flask retaining some of its lacquered finish, the interior of the lid with maker’s trade label, the exterior (one corner with some old staining) with circular vacant escutcheon centred on a circular flush-fitting carrying handle, 18.7 cm barrels

Samuel and Charles Smith, sons of the famous William Smith, are recorded at 64 Princes Street, London between 1834 and 1869. On the death of Samuel in 1855 the firm was carried on by his two sons, also Samuel and Charles. The former later emigrated to Australia.