Beschreibung:

With earlier browned slightly swamped sighted barrels each signed 'Griffin & Tow, London' along the border engraved sighting flat at the breech, and engraved with a line of beadwork behind the back-sight, platinum-lined touch-holes (minor pitting), border engraved tangs decorated with a Britannia shield and foliage, signed border engraved flat bevelled locks each sparsely engraved with foliage on the stepped tail and with a starburst behind the semi-rainproof pan, the steels (one incomplete at the top) each bearing on a ramp on the blued steel-spring, highly figured full stocks with chequered rounded butts, blued iron trigger-guards each with engraved pineapple finial and decorated with a Britannia shield and foliage on the bow, blued ramrod-pipes, vacant silver escutcheons, original horn-tipped ramrods, one with iron worm, and retaining much of their original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case (lid lining slightly damaged) with some accessories including brass-mounted three-way powder-flask, the body of ovoidal section and embossed with vertical lines of beadwork, the base with unusual pivoting cover, a double-ended turnscrew with brass pricker, and iron bullet-mould, the exterior of the lid with engraved flush-fitting carrying handle (loose) centred on a large circular brass escutcheon, London proof marks and barrelsmith's mark of Joseph Griffin 23 cm. barrels