BY JOHN 2 SHAW, LONDON, CIRCA 1690
Details
A Rare 10-Bore Flintlock Wildfowling Gun
By John 2 Shaw, London, circa 1690
With swamped sighted barrel with a raised moulding at the muzzle and breech, plain tang, border engraved lock (replaced), moulded full stock (minor bruising), iron mounts including finely pierced and chiselled side-plate with foliate terminals and involving a monster-head, the trigger-guard with chiselled foliate finial, four baluster iron ramrod-pipes, and iron-capped ramrod (replaced)
54 7/8in. (139.4cm.) barrel
John 2 Shaw was one of the most distinguished English gunmakers of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries. He was apprenticed in Bristol, but already working in London 1665-8. Free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1673, he was successively Gunsmith-in-Ordinary to Charles II, James II, William III and George I. He died in 1720. Several of the early English guns at Gunton Park were made by him
By John 2 Shaw, London, circa 1690
With swamped sighted barrel with a raised moulding at the muzzle and breech, plain tang, border engraved lock (replaced), moulded full stock (minor bruising), iron mounts including finely pierced and chiselled side-plate with foliate terminals and involving a monster-head, the trigger-guard with chiselled foliate finial, four baluster iron ramrod-pipes, and iron-capped ramrod (replaced)
54 7/8in. (139.4cm.) barrel
John 2 Shaw was one of the most distinguished English gunmakers of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries. He was apprenticed in Bristol, but already working in London 1665-8. Free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1673, he was successively Gunsmith-in-Ordinary to Charles II, James II, William III and George I. He died in 1720. Several of the early English guns at Gunton Park were made by him
Provenance
The Barons Suffield, Gunton Park, Norfolk