BY ANDREW DOLEP, LONDON, CIRCA 1695
Details
A Flintlock Blunderbuss
By Andrew Dolep, London, circa 1695
With three-stage belled iron barrel engraved with a band of beadwork at the rear of the breech, associated lock engraved with strawberry foliage and signed 'I. Annely', moulded finely figured rootwood full stock (fore-stock cracked, fore-end replaced) with pronounced swelling at the rear ramrod-pipe, border engraved iron mounts including butt-plate with long tang, and chiselled foliate escutcheon (side-plate and ramrod-pipes replaced), and later iron-capped ramrod, London proof marks
38 1/8in. (96.8cm.)
Andreas Rheinhold Dolep (c. 1648-1713), 'Dutchman', was one of the most important London gunmakers of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries
By Andrew Dolep, London, circa 1695
With three-stage belled iron barrel engraved with a band of beadwork at the rear of the breech, associated lock engraved with strawberry foliage and signed 'I. Annely', moulded finely figured rootwood full stock (fore-stock cracked, fore-end replaced) with pronounced swelling at the rear ramrod-pipe, border engraved iron mounts including butt-plate with long tang, and chiselled foliate escutcheon (side-plate and ramrod-pipes replaced), and later iron-capped ramrod, London proof marks
38 1/8in. (96.8cm.)
Andreas Rheinhold Dolep (c. 1648-1713), 'Dutchman', was one of the most important London gunmakers of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries
Provenance
The Mackintosh of Mackintosh, Moy Hall
An old label associated with this blunderbuss stated that it was found in a cave where Prince Charles Edward Stuart hid after the battle of Culloden
An old label associated with this blunderbuss stated that it was found in a cave where Prince Charles Edward Stuart hid after the battle of Culloden
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, pp. 224, 242, plates 80, 88