BY ANDREW DOLEP, LONDON, CIRCA 1690
Details
An Extremely Rare 22-Bore Flintlock Two-Shot Breech-Loading Carbine
By Andrew Dolep, London, circa 1690
With two-stage turn-off smooth-bore barrel with a ring at the muzzle, the cone-shaped two-chambered breech chiselled on top with a flame and foliage design in relief behind a raised ornately chiselled band and the fast square-cut thread securing the barrel, the tang engraved with a caricature figure, signed border engraved rounded lock with chiselled details, the pan with manually operated shutter fitting into a deep slot between the two touch-holes, 18th century walnut half-stock, engraved chiselled iron mounts including finely pierced side-plate, horn fore-end cap, and associated short iron ramrod, London proof marks with the mark of Lewis Barbar
27½in. (69.8cm.) barrel
Dolep made fine and ingenious firearms, many of them multi-shot. This carbine employs the same cone-shaped breech system as the three-shot Dolep pistol and the pair of three-shot Gorgo pistols in the W. Keith Neal Collection, described and illustrated in W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, pp. 234, 250
By Andrew Dolep, London, circa 1690
With two-stage turn-off smooth-bore barrel with a ring at the muzzle, the cone-shaped two-chambered breech chiselled on top with a flame and foliage design in relief behind a raised ornately chiselled band and the fast square-cut thread securing the barrel, the tang engraved with a caricature figure, signed border engraved rounded lock with chiselled details, the pan with manually operated shutter fitting into a deep slot between the two touch-holes, 18th century walnut half-stock, engraved chiselled iron mounts including finely pierced side-plate, horn fore-end cap, and associated short iron ramrod, London proof marks with the mark of Lewis Barbar
27½in. (69.8cm.) barrel
Dolep made fine and ingenious firearms, many of them multi-shot. This carbine employs the same cone-shaped breech system as the three-shot Dolep pistol and the pair of three-shot Gorgo pistols in the W. Keith Neal Collection, described and illustrated in W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, pp. 234, 250
Provenance
W.W. Greener
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, p. 239, plates 86 a-d