Lot 181
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A FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS with three-stage brass barrel belled at the muzzle and struck with maker's mark on the octagonal breech, rounded lock retained by three screws and engraved with strawberry foliage, walnut full stock with raised apron around the barrel tang (some bruising, fore-end with splits and minor chips), mounts including thin brass butt-plate and iron trigger-guard both held by tacks, turned brass ramrod-pipe, iron sling loop, and brass-capped ramrod, by Robert 1 Silk, London, circa 1690

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A FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS with three-stage brass barrel belled at the muzzle and struck with maker's mark on the octagonal breech, rounded lock retained by three screws and engraved with strawberry foliage, walnut full stock with raised apron around the barrel tang (some bruising, fore-end with splits and minor chips), mounts including thin brass butt-plate and iron trigger-guard both held by tacks, turned brass ramrod-pipe, iron sling loop, and brass-capped ramrod, by Robert 1 Silk, London, circa 1690
30.1.2in.

Lot Essay

Robert 1 Silk was apprenticed to his father, John 4, in 1659. He was free of the Gunmakers Company in 1666 and was Master in 1689, 1696 and 1700. Following his death in 1701 the business was carried on by his wife Mary
For more information see Howard L. Blackmore, A Dictionary of London Gunmakers 1350-1850, 1986, p. 179

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