BY CHARLES HENRY COOPER, BIRMINGHAM, MID-19TH CENTURY
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A Flintlock Blunderbuss
By Charles Henry Cooper, Birmingham, mid-19th Century
With two-stage brass barrel belled at the muzzle and numbered '12', flat bevelled lock signed 'Cooper, London' (mechanism defective), walnut three-quarter stock stamped 'Chas. H. Cooper, Maker, Birmingham', brass mounts, brass ramrod-pipes, iron peg mount with retaining chain, and original iron ramrod (iron parts pitted throughout), Birmingham proof marks
24in. (61cm.) barrel
By Charles Henry Cooper, Birmingham, mid-19th Century
With two-stage brass barrel belled at the muzzle and numbered '12', flat bevelled lock signed 'Cooper, London' (mechanism defective), walnut three-quarter stock stamped 'Chas. H. Cooper, Maker, Birmingham', brass mounts, brass ramrod-pipes, iron peg mount with retaining chain, and original iron ramrod (iron parts pitted throughout), Birmingham proof marks
24in. (61cm.) barrel