AN EARLY ENGLISH DOG-LOCK MUSKET with three-stage sighted barrel, signed flat bevelled lock retained by three later screws and with internal steel-spring, the cock engraved with the arms of the city of Dartmouth (pan missing), walnut full stock (wormed and repaired) with bellied butt carved in relief with foliage behind the tang of the barrel and trigger-guard, and late 17th Century brass trigger-guard (ramrod missing), signed James Barker Fecit, London proof marks, circa 1660 | Christie's

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AN EARLY ENGLISH DOG-LOCK MUSKET with three-stage sighted barrel, signed flat bevelled lock retained by three later screws and with internal steel-spring, the cock engraved with the arms of the city of Dartmouth (pan missing), walnut full stock (wormed and repaired) with bellied butt carved in relief with foliage behind the tang of the barrel and trigger-guard, and late 17th Century brass trigger-guard (ramrod missing), signed James Barker Fecit, London proof marks, circa 1660

細節

AN EARLY ENGLISH DOG-LOCK MUSKET with three-stage sighted barrel, signed flat bevelled lock retained by three later screws and with internal steel-spring, the cock engraved with the arms of the city of Dartmouth (pan missing), walnut full stock (wormed and repaired) with bellied butt carved in relief with foliage behind the tang of the barrel and trigger-guard, and late 17th Century brass trigger-guard (ramrod missing), signed James Barker Fecit, London proof marks, circa 1660
46¼in. barrel

來源

Bridwell House, Devon

出版

W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, p. 153, plate 36

展覽

The National Army Museum, Chelsea, 1972-1994

拍品專文

James Barker was free of the Gunmakers Co. in 1656, and gunmaker to the Ordnance from 1653 to 1669