A RARE SNAPLOCK GUN with sighted barrel, lock of flintlock form but with horizontally working sear projecting through the plate for the half-cock position and engaging with the tumbler at full cock, flat bevelled plate with rounded tail, and rounded cock retained by a flush-fitting bolt with internal nut (missing), two side-nails, walnut full stock (fore-end tip cracked) with flat-sided butt, thin iron trigger-guard and ramrod-pipes without tail-pipe, iron fore-end cap, and original wooden ramrod, circa 1650, probably French | Christie's

拍品 328

328

A RARE SNAPLOCK GUN with sighted barrel, lock of flintlock form but with horizontally working sear projecting through the plate for the half-cock position and engaging with the tumbler at full cock, flat bevelled plate with rounded tail, and rounded cock retained by a flush-fitting bolt with internal nut (missing), two side-nails, walnut full stock (fore-end tip cracked) with flat-sided butt, thin iron trigger-guard and ramrod-pipes without tail-pipe, iron fore-end cap, and original wooden ramrod, circa 1650, probably French

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A RARE SNAPLOCK GUN with sighted barrel, lock of flintlock form but with horizontally working sear projecting through the plate for the half-cock position and engaging with the tumbler at full cock, flat bevelled plate with rounded tail, and rounded cock retained by a flush-fitting bolt with internal nut (missing), two side-nails, walnut full stock (fore-end tip cracked) with flat-sided butt, thin iron trigger-guard and ramrod-pipes without tail-pipe, iron fore-end cap, and original wooden ramrod, circa 1650, probably French
46in. barrel [E.275, S.14]

拍品專文

For a similar gun see Part I, lot 51