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A 16-BORE FLINTLOCK CARRIAGE CARBINE
BY BENJAMIN GRIFFIN, BOND STREET, LONDON, CIRCA 1765
With lightly belled barrel, silver barleycorn fore-sight, and iron cup to receive the ramrod-tip, the breech signed within a long engraved loop on the top flat, engraved grooved tang, signed border engraved rounded lock with safety-catch (cock replaced), figured walnut half-stock, skeleton butt without butt-plate, brass mounts including engraved fore-end cap and trigger-guard with first pattern acorn finial and a rose on the bow, single iron ramrod-pipe, and later horn-tipped ramrod, London proof marks and Foreigner's mark
24¼in. barrel
BY BENJAMIN GRIFFIN, BOND STREET, LONDON, CIRCA 1765
With lightly belled barrel, silver barleycorn fore-sight, and iron cup to receive the ramrod-tip, the breech signed within a long engraved loop on the top flat, engraved grooved tang, signed border engraved rounded lock with safety-catch (cock replaced), figured walnut half-stock, skeleton butt without butt-plate, brass mounts including engraved fore-end cap and trigger-guard with first pattern acorn finial and a rose on the bow, single iron ramrod-pipe, and later horn-tipped ramrod, London proof marks and Foreigner's mark
24¼in. barrel
Provenance
William Wrightson, Cusworth Hall, Doncaster, Yorkshire
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Griffin & Tow and W. Bailes, p. 70, plates 20a,b