Original British 11 & 13 Dual Bore Double Barrel Percussion Fowler by Middleton Cut Down to Coaching Gun - circa 1840 German Military Maps 350 x 135 SPORN

350 x 135 SPORN

without a belt frog

MAKER TO THE

but it does show quite a bit of spidering and some chipping to the paint

and did not have any "Colonial Empire" to speak of until after 1884

Original British 11 & 13 Dual Bore Double Barrel Percussion Fowler by Middleton Cut Down to Coaching Gun - circa 1840 German Military Maps 350 x 135 SPORNOriginal Item: Only One Available. Here we have a typical British made Double Barreled Percussion shotgun, possibly intended for the large U. S. import market. It is marked on both lock plates with MIDDLETON, with simple line engraving around the edges. This was a known gunmaker in Birmingham England, who made shotguns such as these to take advantage of the booming export market. This looks to originally have been made as a somewhat upmarket fowling