A FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS
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A FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS

BY HENRY ELLIS, DONCASTER, CIRCA 1700

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A FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS
By Henry Ellis, Doncaster, circa 1700
With three-stage belled iron barrel, the breech section octagonal then polygonal, engraved tang, signed rounded lock engraved with strawberry foliage (engraving worn), the cock with small pivoting safety-catch released automatically at the full cock position, moulded figured full stock (inset repair below the cock, the butt with some old worm-holes) with raised apron at the barrel tang, brass mounts, border engraved butt-plate with long tang, cast and chased pierced serpentine side-plate, border engraved trigger-guard with fluted bow, baluster ramrod-pipes, and associated iron-capped ramrod (iron parts with surface pitting), London proof marks
30¾in (78.1cm.)
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品專文

Henry Ellis was one of the most distinguished of the English seventeeth-century provincial gunmakers, and his production seems to date from about 1690, and to extend to at least 1712, when he appears as 'gunsmith' in the records of the Borough of Doncaster. He was admitted to the freedom of Doncaster on 15 November 1698, and he died in 1722 or 1723