拍品專文
This is an unusual variation on the seven-barrel guns supplied to the Navy in 1780 and 1787
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BY HENRY NOCK, LONDON, CIRCA 1780
細節
A very rare 50-bore flintlock seven-barrel sporting volley gun
by Henry Nock, London, circa 1780
With twist barrels (lightly pitted) signed on the top two, finely engraved grooved tang, signed bevelled lock with roller and stepped tail, figured walnut butt (extended), chequered grip with a dot in the centre of each diamond, brass mounts of service pattern, and brass-mounted ramrod, London proof marks
20in. (50.8cm.) barrels
by Henry Nock, London, circa 1780
With twist barrels (lightly pitted) signed on the top two, finely engraved grooved tang, signed bevelled lock with roller and stepped tail, figured walnut butt (extended), chequered grip with a dot in the centre of each diamond, brass mounts of service pattern, and brass-mounted ramrod, London proof marks
20in. (50.8cm.) barrels
來源
W. Keith Neal
出版
W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, p. 110, plate 390