Lot 102
102
A FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS with sighted four-stage brass barrel belled at the muzzle and struck with maker's mark on the octagonal breech, signed flat lock retained by three screws, engraved with strawberry foliage and fitted with a dog-catch engraved as a bird behind the robust cock, walnut full stock with raised apron around the barrel tang (repaired at the lock and fore-end), brass mounts including thin butt-plate and later side-plate, later iron trigger-guard, turned brass ramrod-pipe, and later brass-capped ramrod, by Robert 1 Silk, London, London proof marks, late 17th Century

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A FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS with sighted four-stage brass barrel belled at the muzzle and struck with maker's mark on the octagonal breech, signed flat lock retained by three screws, engraved with strawberry foliage and fitted with a dog-catch engraved as a bird behind the robust cock, walnut full stock with raised apron around the barrel tang (repaired at the lock and fore-end), brass mounts including thin butt-plate and later side-plate, later iron trigger-guard, turned brass ramrod-pipe, and later brass-capped ramrod, by Robert 1 Silk, London, London proof marks, late 17th Century
29½in.

Lot Essay

Robert 1 Silk was apprenticed to his father, John 4, in 1659. He was free of the Gunmakers Company in 1666 and was Master in 1689, 1696 and 1700. Following his death in 1701 the business was carried on by his wife Mary

For more information see Howard L. Blackmore, A Dictionary of London Gunmakers 1350-1850, 1986, p. 179

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