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AN INDO-EUROPEAN SPORTING GUN

IN the national collection is a most unusual and truly international late-18th-century sporting gun. European in general design, it could even be thought of as English but it was made in India to a design by a Frenchman who was a serving officer in the British East India Company and working for an Indian Nawab. A delightfully

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