Lot Essay
George 1 Trulock, free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1688, and Assistant in 1700, was Gunmaker to Ordnance between 1695 and 1708
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BY GEORGE TRULOCK, LONDON, CIRCA 1690
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A FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS
By George Trulock, London, circa 1690
With heavy belled iron barrel in three stages, the breech section octagonal then polygonal, plain iron tang, signed rounded lock engraved with strawberry foliage, a monster-head and a profile satyr's mask (cock a working replacement), moulded artificially figured maple full stock with raised panel at the barrel tang (cracks and old repairs, fore-end possibly reduced during its working life), engraved brass mounts, pierced scroll side-plate with monster-head finials, moulded butt-plate engraved with strawberry foliage and with long tang, trigger-guard engraved with a bird, cast and chased escutcheon, baluster brass ramrod-pipes, and incomplete brass-capped ramrod (iron parts with light surface pitting and some rust), London proof marks
36in. (91.5cm.)
By George Trulock, London, circa 1690
With heavy belled iron barrel in three stages, the breech section octagonal then polygonal, plain iron tang, signed rounded lock engraved with strawberry foliage, a monster-head and a profile satyr's mask (cock a working replacement), moulded artificially figured maple full stock with raised panel at the barrel tang (cracks and old repairs, fore-end possibly reduced during its working life), engraved brass mounts, pierced scroll side-plate with monster-head finials, moulded butt-plate engraved with strawberry foliage and with long tang, trigger-guard engraved with a bird, cast and chased escutcheon, baluster brass ramrod-pipes, and incomplete brass-capped ramrod (iron parts with light surface pitting and some rust), London proof marks
36in. (91.5cm.)
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