A Fine And Rare Irish 17-Bore Percussion Single-Trigger D.B. Sporting Rifle, By Wm. & Jn. Rigby, Dublin, No. 9275 For 1844

A Fine And Rare Irish 17-Bore Percussion Single-Trigger D.B. Sporting Rifle
By Wm. & Jn. Rigby, Dublin, No. 9275 For 1844
With matt grey etched twist damascus barrels signed in gothic script along the rib, leaf-sighted from '50' to '200' yards and each rifled with spiral grooves, ramrod-pipes en suite with the barrels, the rear on with integral sling mount, case-hardened breeches each with two platinum lines and pierced platinum plug, the rib between engraved with foliate scrolls, long tang decorated en suite and including a shell within a garland and a line of guilloche, border engraved case-hardened slightly rounded back-action locks each decorated with foliate scrollwork inhabited by a stag in a landscape on the tail, dolphin hammers decorated en suite and each engaging with an engraved safety-catch at half-cock, varnished highly figured half-stock with chequered grip, border engraved steel mounts retaining traces of original blueing and comprising hinged rectangular patch-box cover decorated with a stag pursued by a hound in a landscape above elaborately scrolling foliage, matted butt-plate with scrolling foliage on the heel tang, trigger-guard with a forlorn looking tiger in a landscape on the bow, serial numbered trigger-plate extending to the rear ramrod-pipe, also forming the trigger-guard tang and decorated with scrolling foliage and guilloche, and brass-mounted ramrod with threaded brass cap over the steel worm
76.2 cm. barrels