Museum Collections
Luce Center
Wesley-Richards double barrel percussion shotgun: inscribed
Title
Wesley-Richards double barrel percussion shotgun: inscribed
Object name
Shotgun
Date
1835-1850
Medium
Wood, steel, brass, silver
Dimensions
barrel length: 31 1/8 in. ( 79.1 cm )
Overall: 47 in. ( 119.4 cm )
Description
Wood, steel, brass, and silver percussion shotgun; fourteen gauge double-barreled muzzleloader with front action locks; brass-capped wooden ramrod; silver-plated brass furniture includes pineapple-shaped trigger guard, rectangular escutcheon plate, and two oval wedge escutcheons; scroll engraving on lockplates, trigger guard, barrel tang, tail pipe, tang of buttplate, and on the fish-shaped hammers; engraved birds on trigger bow; checkering at wrist; stamped marks on lockplates, barrel, and trigger guard.
Credit Line
Gift of Tompkins MacIlvaine
Object Number
1947.11



