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BY ROBERT SHARPE, LONDON, CIRCA 1700
细节
A Rare 10-Bore Flintlock Duck Gun
By Robert Sharpe, London, circa 1700
With swamped two-stage barrel, the breech section octagonal changing to sixteen-sided, signed on the top flat, engraved with lines and foliage, and struck with two almost superimposed marks, brass-lined touch-hole, engraved tang, signed rounded brass lock engraved with strawberry foliage and with bridle, figured walnut full stock carved with a shell in relief behind the barrel tang, brass mounts engraved with strawberry foliage including butt-plate with pronounced bulges and long tang, and later brass-capped ramrod (some wear, cock associated)
61in. (155cm.) barrel
By Robert Sharpe, London, circa 1700
With swamped two-stage barrel, the breech section octagonal changing to sixteen-sided, signed on the top flat, engraved with lines and foliage, and struck with two almost superimposed marks, brass-lined touch-hole, engraved tang, signed rounded brass lock engraved with strawberry foliage and with bridle, figured walnut full stock carved with a shell in relief behind the barrel tang, brass mounts engraved with strawberry foliage including butt-plate with pronounced bulges and long tang, and later brass-capped ramrod (some wear, cock associated)
61in. (155cm.) barrel
来源
Ponsonby Collection, Somerset
出版
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740,
pp. 258, 261-2, plates 98a-c
pp. 258, 261-2, plates 98a-c
展览
The British Sporting Exhibition at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, 14-30 January 1938, cat. no. 7
The Game Fair, Longleat House, 1962
The Game Fair, Longleat House, 1962
注意事项
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.