.68 caliber. 32" double keyed octagon to round barrel with under lug. SN: NSN. Browned finish, German silver mountings, steel furniture, faux striped hardwood half-stock with shotgun butt. Top of barrel marked "TRYON PHILADA". Back action percussion lock engraved with tight foliate scrolls and is marked by the maker "R ASHMORE & SON". A high grade percussion fowler by Tryon with a gold band at the breech, as well as delicate scroll engraving on the breech and breech plug tang. The iron buttplate tang and triggerguard with pineapple finial are engraved en-suite. Barrel secured by two keys with German silver escutcheons. Other German silver fittings include the nose cap, entry pipe, engraved leaf motif lock screw finial and a plain oval escutcheon in the counterpane. Includes a brass tipped wooden ramrod. A really lovely, high grade fowler from one of the more famous and prolific Philadelphia gunmakers of the mid-19th century.