75 cm barrels of browned twist Damascus, third grip, extractor, choked cylinder & 1/4, concave rib with gold inlaid maker's name, foliate and blossoms carved breech ends, action with side-clips, Anson & Deeley sideplated boxlock, elaborately engraved with foliage and blossoms in the style of Art Nouveau at the Fin de Siècle, background stippled and gold-washed, organically structured merging over the wood to metal borders, non-automatic sliding tang safety, gold-washed double triggers, walnut stock with semi-pistol-grip and hatched horn buttplate 35,5 cm, deeply carved with en-suite art nouveau elements and coloured varnished foliate scroll, fore-end with Anson push-rod, 2,8 kg, year of manufacture about 1900, contemporary French proof, in a modern leather case with maker's trade label, work of the famous purveyor to the French court unique for its style of decoration, condition III-IV.

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