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BY JOSEPH SANDERS, LONDON, CIRCA 1780
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A FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS PISTOL
By Joseph Sanders, London, circa 1780
With two-stage belled brass barrel octagonal at the breech and with two mouldings at the muzzle, scroll engraved tang, signed border engraved flat bevelled lock with safety-catch, moulded figured walnut half-stock (shortened, minor defects) carved in relief with a shell at the barrel tang, paktong mounts comprising trophy of arms side-plate, grotesque mask pommel, and trigger-guard with acorn finial, paktong escutcheon in the form of a martial trophy, brass-tipped ramrod (defective), and later single brass ramrod-pipe, Tower private proof marks
13½in. (34.3cm.)
By Joseph Sanders, London, circa 1780
With two-stage belled brass barrel octagonal at the breech and with two mouldings at the muzzle, scroll engraved tang, signed border engraved flat bevelled lock with safety-catch, moulded figured walnut half-stock (shortened, minor defects) carved in relief with a shell at the barrel tang, paktong mounts comprising trophy of arms side-plate, grotesque mask pommel, and trigger-guard with acorn finial, paktong escutcheon in the form of a martial trophy, brass-tipped ramrod (defective), and later single brass ramrod-pipe, Tower private proof marks
13½in. (34.3cm.)
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