Lot 48
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An Unusual 6-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
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An Unusual 6-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun

UNSIGNED, CIRCA 1760

Details
An Unusual 6-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
Unsigned, circa 1760
With swamped two-stage barrel with chiselled girdle and silver spider fore-sight, the octagonal breech dated '1758' in gold, with gold line at the rear and two gold-lined stamps of Eudal Pous of Barcelona within numerous engraved gold-inlaid decorative marks, gold-lined touch-hole, engraved shaped tang, flat bevelled lock with stepped tail, roller, gold-lined pan, and unusual safety device locking the steel by means of a ratchet operated by a spindle at the top centre of the plate, figured walnut half-stock (probably reduced from full, minor bruising) carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel tang, engraved iron mounts, trigger-guard with first pattern acorn finial, pierced finely chiselled side-plate, chiselled escutcheon with scallop-shell above, iron fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod with worm
42 3/8in. (108.3cm.) barrel
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, plate 528 (side-plate only)
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

The safety mechanism is similar to that on the magnificent gun by William Simpson of York, made for William Constable (1721-1791) of Burton Constable, formely in the W. Keith Neal Collection, and now in the Royal Armouries, Leeds (inv. no. XII. 5843). The Simpson gun is fully described by Neal and Back (op. cit.), pp. 92-93

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