16TH/17TH CENTURY
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A Gunner's Linstock
16th/17th Century
The head of bright steel comprising a tapering socket of polygonal section with mouldings at top and bottom surmounted by a rectangular moulded capital supporting two arms forming a curved V, each terminating in a socket-shaped spring-actuated match-clamp with decorative moulding, the mouldings throughout inlaid with brass strips, on associated wooden staff with conical iron shoe
13½in. (34.4cm.) head
16th/17th Century
The head of bright steel comprising a tapering socket of polygonal section with mouldings at top and bottom surmounted by a rectangular moulded capital supporting two arms forming a curved V, each terminating in a socket-shaped spring-actuated match-clamp with decorative moulding, the mouldings throughout inlaid with brass strips, on associated wooden staff with conical iron shoe
13½in. (34.4cm.) head