A SPANISH MIQUELET-LOCK BLUNDERBUSS with belled three-stage barrel inlaid at the breech with an engraved brass bird, flowerheads, scrolls and dots, patilla lock with fluted bridle on the cock and pan, walnut full stock with Catalan butt studded with brass nails and inlaid with brass panels pierced and engraved with foliage inhabited by birds and monsters, the panel at the fore-end pierced and engraved with a double-headed eagle and foliage (slightly incomplete), brass mounts including butt-plate engraved with a bird and foliage, and fluted trigger-guard, long tapering iron belt hook, and original brass-tipped ramrod, second half of the 18th Century

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A SPANISH MIQUELET-LOCK BLUNDERBUSS with belled three-stage barrel inlaid at the breech with an engraved brass bird, flowerheads, scrolls and dots, patilla lock with fluted bridle on the cock and pan, walnut full stock with Catalan butt studded with brass nails and inlaid with brass panels pierced and engraved with foliage inhabited by birds and monsters, the panel at the fore-end pierced and engraved with a double-headed eagle and foliage (slightly incomplete), brass mounts including butt-plate engraved with a bird and foliage, and fluted trigger-guard, long tapering iron belt hook, and original brass-tipped ramrod, second half of the 18th Century
18½in.

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