A FINE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK PRESENTATION BLUNDERBUSS with two-stage barrel belled and turned at the muzzle and signed in full within a gold foliated scroll on the octagonal breech (signature rubbed), gold lines and vent, tang engraved with foliage and inlaid with a gold trophy of arms, engraved lock (safety-catch missing) signed within a gold scroll, engraved pierced cock (top jaw and screw missing), roller and gold-lined rainproof pan, figured walnut full stock profusely inlaid with scrolling silver-wire and engraved silver vines, flowerheads and foliage (some panels missing), the butt with a cornucopia of fruit on each side, silver mounts cast and chased with trophies of arms in relief including butt-plate, vacant escutcheon and pierced side-plate, scrolled trigger-guard engraved with trophies of arms and with pineapple finial, and original horn-tipped whalebone ramrod (the barrel and lock with surface rust), by Thomas Dobson, 1 Finsbury St., London, Birmingham silver hallmarks for 1817, maker's mark of John Freeth