拍品专文
Joseph Hunt was made free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1774. He was contractor to Ordnance 1777-82, and to the East India Company in 1774
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A 16-BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN
BY JOSEPH HUNT, QUEEN STREET, LONDON, CIRCA 1775
With sighted two-stage barrel engraved with a band of beadwork at the breech and engraved with the maker's address on a ribbon on the top flat, engraved grooved tang, engraved flat bevelled lock signed within rococo decoration, figured walnut half-stock (probably reduced, cracked and repaired around the lock) inlaid with a shell, flowers and scrolls in silver wire at the barrel tang, coarsely chequered grip with a dot at the centre of each diamond, engraved paktong mounts including skeleton butt-plate (cracked), paktong and brass ramrod-pipes, and later horn-tipped ramrod, Tower proof marks
38¾in. barrel
BY JOSEPH HUNT, QUEEN STREET, LONDON, CIRCA 1775
With sighted two-stage barrel engraved with a band of beadwork at the breech and engraved with the maker's address on a ribbon on the top flat, engraved grooved tang, engraved flat bevelled lock signed within rococo decoration, figured walnut half-stock (probably reduced, cracked and repaired around the lock) inlaid with a shell, flowers and scrolls in silver wire at the barrel tang, coarsely chequered grip with a dot at the centre of each diamond, engraved paktong mounts including skeleton butt-plate (cracked), paktong and brass ramrod-pipes, and later horn-tipped ramrod, Tower proof marks
38¾in. barrel