A RARE 22 BORE FRENCH FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY BERTHON À AIX, CIRCA 1810
with tapering barrel of 'hog's back' form, retaining much early Japanned camouflage paint (small chips) and retained by a single engraved steel band with sprung release lever, engraved tang incorporating the back-sight, signed bevelled lock engraved with flowers and sprays of foliage, fitted with roller and semi-rainproof pan, figured walnut half-stock with chequered fore-end and grip, carved with a band of scrolls about the tang, take-down butt finely carved in the round as a hound's head, fitted with a moulded silver band as a collar, engraved steel trigger-guard, engraved two-piece side-plate, two silver ramrod-pipes, the forward incorporating the fore-sight, and complete with contemporary ramrod, perhaps the original
86.8 cm; 34 ¼ in barrel

Berthon-Perrin is recorded arquebusier in Aix circa 1800-20.