An Unusual 8-Bore Flintlock Gun
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An Unusual 8-Bore Flintlock Gun

BY JOHN BLANCKLEY, CIRCA 1680

Details
An Unusual 8-Bore Flintlock Gun
By John Blanckley, circa 1680
With heavy three-stage sighted barrel (probably from an Elizabethan musket) inscribed on the top flat of the breech '15 Tilbury 88' (back-sight removed), pierced fore-sight, plain tang, rounded lock signed 'I. Blanckle (sic)' and finely engraved with strawberry foliage inhabited by a bird and a monster-head, moulded full stock (minor bruising) with raised panel at the barrel tang, shaped brass mounts including flat pierced scroll side-plate and flat butt-plate secured by nails, three brass baluster ramrod-pipes (one replaced), and later brass-capped ramrod
46½in. (118.1cm.) barrel
Provenance
Charles Greener, son of W.W. Greener
Literature
Richard Akehurst, Sporting Guns, plate 18
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, pp. 69, 168, plates 5, 52 a, b
Exhibited
The Game Fair, Longleat House, 1962
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

The inscription on the barrel commemorates Queen Elizabeth I's inspection of troops at the time of the Spanish Armada
John Blanckley (d. 1700) was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1677, Contractor to Ordnance from 1682 to 1700 and to the Royal African Company in 1698

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