Details of Lot 193
MALEHAM
A 12-BORE POWELL'S PATENT BAR-IN-WOOD HAMMER GUN, NO. 5045

30-inch damascus barrels with 2 1/2-inch chambers, about improved cylinder borings, the frame, lift-up thumb lever, rebounding bar locks and hammers with border engraving 13 3/4-inch figured stock with engraved steel butt plate, repaired at the head, 6lb. 14oz., nitro re-proof, bores marked

William Powell's records indicate that this gun was completed for Maleham by them in 1872.
Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns
The Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland
20 August 2012
Commission is 25% ex. VAT. Artist's Resale Right may apply