Lot Essay
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BY JOHN BLANCKLEY, LONDON, CIRCA 1690
Details
A Fine Flintlock Blunderbuss
By John Blanckley, London, circa 1690
With signed belled brass barrel in three stages, the breech section octagonal then sixteen-sided and engraved with lines and strawberry foliage, at the rear a raised moulding, plain tang, signed border engraved rounded lock with further strawberry leaf engraving, moulded beech full stock (fore-end cracked) with raised stepped moulding at the barrel tang, brass mounts including flat butt-plate with long tang, and pierced scroll side-plate (finial missing), the former retained by tacks and engraved with strawberry foliage, shaped escutcheon engraved with a caricature profile bust, single turned brass ramrod-pipe, and later brass-capped ramrod, London proof marks
27¾in. (70.5cm.)
By John Blanckley, London, circa 1690
With signed belled brass barrel in three stages, the breech section octagonal then sixteen-sided and engraved with lines and strawberry foliage, at the rear a raised moulding, plain tang, signed border engraved rounded lock with further strawberry leaf engraving, moulded beech full stock (fore-end cracked) with raised stepped moulding at the barrel tang, brass mounts including flat butt-plate with long tang, and pierced scroll side-plate (finial missing), the former retained by tacks and engraved with strawberry foliage, shaped escutcheon engraved with a caricature profile bust, single turned brass ramrod-pipe, and later brass-capped ramrod, London proof marks
27¾in. (70.5cm.)
Provenance
J.N. George, author of English Pistols and Revolvers and English Guns and Rifles
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, pp. 169-170, plates 53 a-d
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, pp. 169-170, plates 53 a-d
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.