Lot Essay
John 1 Sibley was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1685, and Master in 1705. He died in 1714
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BY JOHN SIBLEY, LONDON, CIRCA 1690-1700
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A Fine Flintlock Blunderbuss
By John Sibley, London, circa 1690-1700
With belled brass barrel in two stages, the breech section octagonal then polygonal, engraved with lines and foliage, signed on the top flat, and with grooved ramp at the rear, engraved iron tang, signed border engraved rounded lock, moulded beech full stock (cracked in ramrod-channel) with a boldly raised apron at the barrel tang, brass mounts including flat butt-plate with long engraved tang, cast and chased side-plate and escutcheon, the former of pierced dragonesque form, the latter with grotesque mask above, single baluster ramrod-pipe, and brass-capped ramrod, London proof marks
31in. (78.8cm.)
By John Sibley, London, circa 1690-1700
With belled brass barrel in two stages, the breech section octagonal then polygonal, engraved with lines and foliage, signed on the top flat, and with grooved ramp at the rear, engraved iron tang, signed border engraved rounded lock, moulded beech full stock (cracked in ramrod-channel) with a boldly raised apron at the barrel tang, brass mounts including flat butt-plate with long engraved tang, cast and chased side-plate and escutcheon, the former of pierced dragonesque form, the latter with grotesque mask above, single baluster ramrod-pipe, and brass-capped ramrod, London proof marks
31in. (78.8cm.)
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back , Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, pp. 328-9, plates 135a-c
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.