SN: 7T74907. Cal. 22 LR. Spectacular little Browning with 19" rnd bbl, gold bead front sight and folding rear sight. Mounted with incredibly streaky, honey & chocolate Circassian walnut with skip-line checkered beavertail forearm & pistol grip stock that has serrated buttplate. Receiver is wonderfully engraved by "MERLIE" and is signed in the left vignette over "87". Engraving consists of the large vignette of a setter on point with three pheasants in a field scene, all in gold and in great detail. Right vignette depicts a gold setter and three gold mallard ducks in a marsh scene in equal detail. Top of the receiver has a beautifully detailed bust of a spaniel holding a dead bird in its mouth. All the engraving is surrounded by extremely well-executed, intertwined foliate arabesque patterns with very fine shaded background. Matching engraving surrounds the top vignette and is also on the trigger bow with feather patterns on the bottom edges of receiver. Trigger is gold washed. SIZE: CONDITION: Extremely fine plus. Overall retains 99%+ factory finish with bright blue and about all of gold wash on the trigger; gold animals, being the softest metal on the rifle, show no wear. Wood is sound with a couple of small scratches on the comb and retains virtually all of its orig glossy factory finish. Mechanics are crisp, brilliant shiny bore, probably unfired. 49169-1 JR441 (4,000-8,000) MODERN