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AN ENGLISH FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE with signed three-stage sighted barrel engraved with a symmetrical pattern of strawberry foliage at the breech, engraved tang, signed border engraved rounded lock engraved with further strawberry foliage, moulded rootwood full stock (chipped at the front of the lock, tip of fore-end cracked), brass mounts including engraved butt-plate with long waved tang in the form of a serpent, pierced and chiselled side-plate (incomplete), and vacant escutcheon with scrolls and monster-heads beneath, turned ramrod-pipes, and associated wooden ramrod, by Isaac Bleiberg, London, London proof marks, circa 1700
43½in. barrel [E.328, S.14]
