ANOTHER, with turn-off cannon barrel, two-stage breech engraved with strawberry foliage, engraved tang, signed rounded lock engraved with srawberry foliage on the cock and tail (steel-spring, top jaw and screw replaced), highly figured rootwood stock, iron mounts comprising engraved trigger-plate, pierced serpentine side-plate, and pommel chiselled with a grotesque mask, and button trigger without guard, by W. Heasler, London, late 17th Century 6 7/8in.

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ANOTHER, with turn-off cannon barrel, two-stage breech engraved with strawberry foliage, engraved tang, signed rounded lock engraved with srawberry foliage on the cock and tail (steel-spring, top jaw and screw replaced), highly figured rootwood stock, iron mounts comprising engraved trigger-plate, pierced serpentine side-plate, and pommel chiselled with a grotesque mask, and button trigger without guard, by W. Heasler, London, late 17th Century 6 7/8in.

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William Heasler was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1689, and Master in 1717

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