A FINE DAW 'IMPROVED' SCHNEIDER 1860 PATENT 12-BORE HAMMER GUN BY G.H. DAW, NO. 377

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A FINE DAW 'IMPROVED' SCHNEIDER 1860 PATENT 12-BORE HAMMER GUN BY G.H. DAW, NO. 377
Snap-action underlever, non-rebounding backlocks, percussion fences, elongated top-and bottom-straps, best bold foliate-scroll engraving with traces of hardening-colour, well-figured stock with engraved heel-and toe-plates, with spare strikers and extractor under the heel-plate, the browned twist barrels with game-rib
Weight 7lb. 7oz., 14.5/8in. stock, 30in. barrels, both approx. cyl., 2in. chambers, Black Powder proof

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Lot Essay

Gun No. 377 provides a fine example of G.H. Daw's improvement on F.E. Schneider patent No. 1487 of 1861 which was one of the most significant developments in the history of the breech-loading gun. Daw, appreciating the ingenuity of this combination of the centre-fire principle with the automatically bolted breech-loading gun, went on to improve the design, as here, with an underlever/triggerguard catch, a strengthening of the hinge-pin via a transverse bar in the action-bar, and sprung strikers and an extractor stop

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