BY BELL, YORK, LATE 18TH CENTURY
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A Flintlock Blunderbuss
By Bell, York, late 18th Century
With four-stage belled brass barrel, the lightly engraved breech section octagonal then polygonal, signed flat bevelled border engraved lock with stepped tail (cock replaced), walnut three-quarter stock (fore-end repaired and partly replaced), brass mounts including engraved side-plate and trigger-guard with acorn finial, vacant brass escutcheon, and later wooden ramrod, Birmingham proof marks
31in. (78.7cm.)
By Bell, York, late 18th Century
With four-stage belled brass barrel, the lightly engraved breech section octagonal then polygonal, signed flat bevelled border engraved lock with stepped tail (cock replaced), walnut three-quarter stock (fore-end repaired and partly replaced), brass mounts including engraved side-plate and trigger-guard with acorn finial, vacant brass escutcheon, and later wooden ramrod, Birmingham proof marks
31in. (78.7cm.)