Details
A FLINTLOCK P0WDER-TESTER
BY JAMES FREEMAN, LONDON, CIRCA 1730
With brass action and wheel, the latter engraved with a rose on one side and numbered from 1 to 12 on the other, the former signed on the top flat of the breech and sparsely engraved with foliage within double line borders, globose figured walnut butt (damaged and repaired) carved behind the tang, and trigger without guard (iron parts pitted)
5¼in.
BY JAMES FREEMAN, LONDON, CIRCA 1730
With brass action and wheel, the latter engraved with a rose on one side and numbered from 1 to 12 on the other, the former signed on the top flat of the breech and sparsely engraved with foliage within double line borders, globose figured walnut butt (damaged and repaired) carved behind the tang, and trigger without guard (iron parts pitted)
5¼in.
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540 - 1740, p. 418, plates 179a, b