Lot Essay
Guns of this type with brass decoration are much rarer than those mounted in iron. A similar brass-mounted example is in the Royal Armouries, Leeds (inv. no. XII. 1621)
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DATED 1792
Details
An Unusual 50-Bore Sardinian Miquelet-Lock Fowling-Piece
Dated 1792
With plain sighted barrel octagonal over most of its length, the underside of the muzzle covered with brass engraved with berries and scrolling foliage, lightly engraved lock of Neapolitan type with dated steel, three-quarter stock decorated on the butt with applied brass plaques pierced and engraved with designs of running foliage involving monster-heads, with a monster devouring the tail of the lock-plate, and opposite the lock with churches, beasts, and a scene of the chase involving a sportsman firing his Sardinian gun at a stag, the fluted fore-stock (minor chips) with foliate engraved solid panels, one of iron and the other of brass, brass trigger-guard cast in relief with foliage, and original brass-tipped iron ramrod
49¾in. (126.4cm.) barrel
Dated 1792
With plain sighted barrel octagonal over most of its length, the underside of the muzzle covered with brass engraved with berries and scrolling foliage, lightly engraved lock of Neapolitan type with dated steel, three-quarter stock decorated on the butt with applied brass plaques pierced and engraved with designs of running foliage involving monster-heads, with a monster devouring the tail of the lock-plate, and opposite the lock with churches, beasts, and a scene of the chase involving a sportsman firing his Sardinian gun at a stag, the fluted fore-stock (minor chips) with foliate engraved solid panels, one of iron and the other of brass, brass trigger-guard cast in relief with foliage, and original brass-tipped iron ramrod
49¾in. (126.4cm.) barrel
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.