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Inghilterra
length 114 cm.
Two twisted smoothbore upper barrels and one rifled lower barrel, with rib (raised in the rear sight area and featuring two holes for an additional rear sight?) marked ‘LONDON FINE...WIS / W.H. BAKER’, fitted with rear sight and foresight, 15 mm and 9 mm
length 114 cm.
Two twisted smoothbore upper barrels and one rifled lower barrel, with rib (raised in the rear sight area and featuring two holes for an additional rear sight?) marked ‘LONDON FINE...WIS / W.H. BAKER’, fitted with rear sight and foresight, 15 mm and 9 mm
Specialist Notes
Extremely rare percussion drilling, very few muzzle-loading examples appear on the market; this particular piece also features a lower barrel of smaller calibre and rifled. It is likely that the two holes present on the rib originally housed the rear sigh
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