Lot Essay
The decoration on this gun is very similar to that on a number of firearms in the collection of the Banco Iberico in Madrid, and is thought to have been carried out by a Madrid gunmaker earlier this Century
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A RARE 38-BORE SPANISH MIQUELET-LOCK BOY'S MUSKET
BY JUAN LOPEZ, MADRID, DATED 1810
With signed and dated rebrowned barrel cut with foliage in low relief at the muzzle and breech and with bayonet-lug and copper-lined touch-hole, engraved tang, signed engraved lock with brass pan, figured walnut three-quarter stock carved throughout with flowers and foliage in low relief, engraved iron mounts of service pattern, iron sling mounts, and iron ramrod (engraving and carving later)
18¼in. barrel
BY JUAN LOPEZ, MADRID, DATED 1810
With signed and dated rebrowned barrel cut with foliage in low relief at the muzzle and breech and with bayonet-lug and copper-lined touch-hole, engraved tang, signed engraved lock with brass pan, figured walnut three-quarter stock carved throughout with flowers and foliage in low relief, engraved iron mounts of service pattern, iron sling mounts, and iron ramrod (engraving and carving later)
18¼in. barrel