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Lot 6025
Rare Thomas Horsley 12 Bore 2nd Patent Pull-Back Toplever Bar-In-Wood Hammer Gun in Case
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Serial number 1324 on trigger tang, watertable, bottom of both barrels and forend metal, 28 3/4 in. damascus barrels marked THOMAS HORSLEY MAKER YORK PATENT 2440 with single front bead sight, double hammer receiver with rose and scroll engravings marked THOMAS HORSLEY'S PATENT YORK, double trigger, checkered walnut stock and forend, oval plate on toe, original buttplate. LOP 14 1/8 in.

David J. Baker. THOMAS HORSLEY: GUNMAKER OF YORK. Ceredigion: David J. Baker, 2006. Signed by the author on the title page and dated Nov. 2006. Hardcover. Dark green cloth-covered boards with gilt title on spine, in glossy pictorial dust jacket (in removable protective cover). Large 4to; 207pp. (Boards with light sunning, clean and unmarked pages, minor stains at fore-edge; jacket with mild edge wear and scratches; very good.) Book 12 1/8 x 9 1/4 in.

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45 1/8 in.

Patents exhibited: Barrel bolting sliding toplever patent No. 2410 of 1st October 1863
DOM: 1865 for Captain Dalton
Ejector: No
Barrel Type: Damascus
Barrel Length: 28 ¾”
Chamber Length: 2 ½” (65mm)
Proof: 2007 Nitro reproof @ .734 (18.6)
Bore Diameter: Left: .738, Right: .739
Minimum Wall Thickness: Left: .024, Right: .022
Choke: Left: .003 Imp. cylinder, Right: .003 Imp Cylinder
LOP: 14 1/8” to steel buttplate

Overall very good estate condition, some wear to receiver and trigger guard tang from normal use.