Description
40-BORE PERCUSSION SINGLE-BARRELLED SPORTING RIFLE SIGNED GASQUOINE & DYSON, no visible serial number, circa 1850, with octagonal 30 1/4in. multi-groove barrel, bead fore-sight, standing notch rear-sight with additional folding leaf, angled breech with gold lines, engraved nipple bolster with platinum plug, fully engraved top-tang, border and scroll engraved bar-action lock signed ‘GASQUOINE & DYSON’ (traces of colour), walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist, white metal oval escutcheon behind top-tang, iron furniture including raised and chequered finger spur to lower tang, plain trigger and brass mounted ebony ramrod
