LATE 17TH CENTURY
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AN UNUSUAL 16-BORE FLINTLOCK DUCK GUN
Late 17th Century
With earlier tapering two-stage sighted barrel, the breech section octagonal changing to sixteen-sided and engraved with spurious signature 'H. Barne', plain tang, plain rounded lock (parts replaced), walnut half-stock without side-plate or butt-plate, brass trigger-guard engraved with strawberry foliage, three baluster brass ramrod-pipes, and later wooden ramrod, London proof marks
61in. (154.9cm.) barrel
Late 17th Century
With earlier tapering two-stage sighted barrel, the breech section octagonal changing to sixteen-sided and engraved with spurious signature 'H. Barne', plain tang, plain rounded lock (parts replaced), walnut half-stock without side-plate or butt-plate, brass trigger-guard engraved with strawberry foliage, three baluster brass ramrod-pipes, and later wooden ramrod, London proof marks
61in. (154.9cm.) barrel
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