BY EZEKIEL BAKER, LONDON, CIRCA 1805-10

Details

A Rare 22-Bore Take-Down Flintlock Gun
By Ezekiel Baker, London, circa 1805-10
With tapering browned turn-off barrel, patent breech with gold line and platinum-lined touch-hole, detented patent lock with roller, blued steel-spring, gold-lined maker's stamp, moulded border, safety-catch, stepped tail, pierced cock, rainproof pan and patent steel with spark deflector, engraved grooved tang, figured walnut half-stock (minor bruising), chequered grip, skeleton butt, engraved iron mounts (some minor pitting), the trigger-guard engraved with a dog and retaining traces of blued finish, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, and shield-shaped silver escutcheon, London proof mark
31 1/8in. (79.1cm.) barrel

Provenance

William Goodwin Renwick, Sotheby & Co., London, 12 November 1973, lot 4 (£550 to Neal)

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Made for a gentleman collector of ornamental birds, for mounting by a taxidermist. Such guns were often loaded with dust shot, so as not to damage the feathers, and were made to be concealed, in view of the likely need for trespassing
Cf. lots 94 and 108 sold from the W. Keith Neal Collection in these Rooms, 9 November 2000
For information on W.G. Renwick, see footnote to lot 260

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