BY JOHN BLANCKLEY, CIRCA 1680

細節

An Unusual 8-Bore Flintlock Gun
By John Blanckley, circa 1680
With heavy three-stage sighted barrel (probably from an Elizabethan musket) inscribed on the top flat of the breech '15 Tilbury 88' (back-sight removed), pierced fore-sight, plain tang, rounded lock signed 'I. Blanckle (sic)' and finely engraved with strawberry foliage inhabited by a bird and a monster-head, moulded full stock (minor bruising) with raised panel at the barrel tang, shaped brass mounts including flat pierced scroll side-plate and flat butt-plate secured by nails, three brass baluster ramrod-pipes (one replaced), and later brass-capped ramrod
46½in. (118.1cm.) barrel

來源

Charles Greener, son of W.W. Greener

出版

Richard Akehurst, Sporting Guns, plate 18
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, pp. 69, 168, plates 5, 52 a, b

展覽

The Game Fair, Longleat House, 1962

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品專文

The inscription on the barrel commemorates Queen Elizabeth I's inspection of troops at the time of the Spanish Armada
John Blanckley (d. 1700) was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1677, Contractor to Ordnance from 1682 to 1700 and to the Royal African Company in 1698