A FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS with belled two-stage brass barrel, signed octagonal breech engraved and chiselled with foliage and with engraved rounded ramp, iron tang, flat bevelled lock with gold-lined pan and large sliding safety-catch, figured walnut full stock (wormed, cracked at the fore-end and beneath the lock), engraved brass mounts including trigger-guard with acorn finial, and escutcheon cast and chased with a shell, iron sling swivels, and later brass-tipped ramrod, the barrel signed Le Maire, London proof marks, early 18th Century, remounted circa 1760-80