Lot Essay
The same (Scottish?) owner's initials are found on a related superimposed-load flintlock gun sold from the W. Keith Neal Collection in these Rooms, 9 November 2000, lot 89
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BY ROBERT BROOKE, LONDON, CIRCA 1685
Details
A Very Rare 21-Bore Two-Shot Superimposed-Load Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Robert Brooke, London, circa 1685
With earlier Turkish swamped twist barrel in four stages with three mouldings, shaped muzzle, and slotted fore- and back-sight, the octagonal breech with Irish registration number 'CB-802', engraved tang, signed border engraved rounded lock, the plate engraved with a bird, a dog, foliage, and the owner's initials 'IN', the pan with horizontal shutter and priming channel with hinged cover for the front touch-hole, moulded figured full stock (minor bruises, small section of fore-end replaced) with a raised panel at the barrel tang and curved butt of Scottish flavour, brass butt-plate engraved with old armoury number '52', iron trigger-guard with owner's initials 'IN' within a flower-head, engraved brass side-plate, three baluster brass ramrod-pipes, and later brass-capped ramrod
35¾in. (908cm.) barrel
By Robert Brooke, London, circa 1685
With earlier Turkish swamped twist barrel in four stages with three mouldings, shaped muzzle, and slotted fore- and back-sight, the octagonal breech with Irish registration number 'CB-802', engraved tang, signed border engraved rounded lock, the plate engraved with a bird, a dog, foliage, and the owner's initials 'IN', the pan with horizontal shutter and priming channel with hinged cover for the front touch-hole, moulded figured full stock (minor bruises, small section of fore-end replaced) with a raised panel at the barrel tang and curved butt of Scottish flavour, brass butt-plate engraved with old armoury number '52', iron trigger-guard with owner's initials 'IN' within a flower-head, engraved brass side-plate, three baluster brass ramrod-pipes, and later brass-capped ramrod
35¾in. (908cm.) barrel
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, pp. 198-200, plates 65 a-e
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.