Lot Essay
This gun appears to have been modernized by Henry Nock in circa 1790
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BY HENRY NOCK, LONDON, CIRCA 1760
Details
A 17-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Henry Nock, London, circa 1760
With rebrowned two-stage barrel, silver spider fore-sight, patent breech with oval gold-lined stamp and gold-lined touch-hole, finely engraved grooved tang, case-hardened lock with gold-lined maker's stamp, moulded border, stepped tail, roller, blued steel-spring, and rainproof pan, the internal working parts retaining their original blued finish, moulded finely figured walnut half-stock (butt extended, probably reduced from full) finely carved in relief with shells at the barrel tang, cast and chased silver mounts of exceptional quality decorated in relief with masks, flowers, and foliage, the butt-plate engraved with rococo designs, the trigger-guard finial in the form of a bouquet of flowers, pierced trigger, horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod with worm, London proof marks
38½in (97.8cm.) barrel
By Henry Nock, London, circa 1760
With rebrowned two-stage barrel, silver spider fore-sight, patent breech with oval gold-lined stamp and gold-lined touch-hole, finely engraved grooved tang, case-hardened lock with gold-lined maker's stamp, moulded border, stepped tail, roller, blued steel-spring, and rainproof pan, the internal working parts retaining their original blued finish, moulded finely figured walnut half-stock (butt extended, probably reduced from full) finely carved in relief with shells at the barrel tang, cast and chased silver mounts of exceptional quality decorated in relief with masks, flowers, and foliage, the butt-plate engraved with rococo designs, the trigger-guard finial in the form of a bouquet of flowers, pierced trigger, horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod with worm, London proof marks
38½in (97.8cm.) barrel
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, plates 396-399
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.