EARLY 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY DUTCH EAST INDIES
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An Unusual 70-Bore Flintlock Trade Gun In The Dutch Style
Early 18th Century, Probably Dutch East Indies
With two-stage barrel profusely decorated throughout its length with encrusted flowerheads, foliage and strapwork against a punched silvered ground, shaped tang en suite, silver fore-sight, silver-inlaid flat bevelled lock, lightly carved moulded red-painted full stock (cracked at the lock, fore-end tip incomplete), brass mounts with silver-encrusted decoration, turned silvered ramrod-pipes, and wooden ramrod (defective)
37¼in. (95.2cm.) barrel
For two similar guns in the H.L. Visser Collection, see J.P. Puype, The Visser Collection, Vol I, No.s HV 627-8, pp. 374-7
Early 18th Century, Probably Dutch East Indies
With two-stage barrel profusely decorated throughout its length with encrusted flowerheads, foliage and strapwork against a punched silvered ground, shaped tang en suite, silver fore-sight, silver-inlaid flat bevelled lock, lightly carved moulded red-painted full stock (cracked at the lock, fore-end tip incomplete), brass mounts with silver-encrusted decoration, turned silvered ramrod-pipes, and wooden ramrod (defective)
37¼in. (95.2cm.) barrel
For two similar guns in the H.L. Visser Collection, see J.P. Puype, The Visser Collection, Vol I, No.s HV 627-8, pp. 374-7