A FLINTLOCK WALL-PIECE with earlier three-stage hackbut barrel with octagonal breech and swamped muzzle, open standing back-sight, and a pierced hook beneath the muzzle, flat lock (action defective) retained by three screws (one missing) and with bevelled edge and pierced cock (top jaw missing, screw incomplete), angular wooden full stock (wormed) with paddle-shaped butt recessed for the thumb, and later iron trigger-guard finely chiselled with a mask and with pierced and chiselled foliate finials, mid-17th Century, the barrel early 16th Century, the trigger-guard late 17th Century

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A FLINTLOCK WALL-PIECE with earlier three-stage hackbut barrel with octagonal breech and swamped muzzle, open standing back-sight, and a pierced hook beneath the muzzle, flat lock (action defective) retained by three screws (one missing) and with bevelled edge and pierced cock (top jaw missing, screw incomplete), angular wooden full stock (wormed) with paddle-shaped butt recessed for the thumb, and later iron trigger-guard finely chiselled with a mask and with pierced and chiselled foliate finials, mid-17th Century, the barrel early 16th Century, the trigger-guard late 17th Century
44¼in. barrel [E.251]

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