拍品 131
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A 15-BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN

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A 15-BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN

BY SAMUEL NOCK, GUN MAKER TO HIS MAJESTY, LONDON, NO. 111, CIRCA 1810

With rebrowned twist barrel with silver fore-sight and long sighting groove at the breech engraved 'Gun Maker to his Majesty', case-hardened patent breech, two gold lines, gold-lined maker's stamp, and platinum-lined touch-hole, finely engraved grooved case-hardened tang, engraved case-hardened flat bevelled lock with roller, rainproof pan, and further gold-lined maker's stamp, finely figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, cheek-piece, finely engraved blued iron mounts including trigger-guard, and trigger-plate with pineapple finial, silver fore-end cap and barrel-bolt escutcheons, original horn-tipped ramrod, and in fine condition with some original finish, London proof marks
32in. barrel

拍品專文

Samuel Nock, nephew of Henry, was apprenticed to his uncle in 1791. He was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1800, and was appointed Gunmaker-in-Ordinary to George III in 1805; George IV in 1822; William IV in 1830; Queen Victoria in 1837. He died in 1851