With sighted octagonal barrel, with single gold line at the breech and gold touch-hol, fitted with rear-sight, foliate engraved tang, border engraved lock, fitted with sliding safety catch and signed ‘BARBER & BOALER NEWARK’ full-stocked in walnut, cut with chequering at the grip, steel mounts comprising trigger guard decorated with a stand of arms on the bow with pineapple finial and turned ramrod pipes, horn tipped ramrod. 

BARBER & BOALER Newark, Notts, 1804-1816.

De Witt Bailey & Douglas A. Nie (1978) English Gunmakers, Acro Publishing Inc, New York.

Barber, T. [1770-1800]

Shop at Newark, Nottingham. General gunsmith. 

A. Merwyn Carey (1954) English, Irish and Scottish Firearms Makers, Acro Publishing Company, New York. 

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