A FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS

A FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS
By Henry Ellis, Doncaster, circa 1700
With three-stage belled iron barrel, the breech section octagonal then polygonal, engraved tang, signed rounded lock engraved with strawberry foliage (engraving worn), the cock with small pivoting safety-catch released automatically at the full cock position, moulded figured full stock (inset repair below the cock, the butt with some old worm-holes) with raised apron at the barrel tang, brass mounts, border engraved butt-plate with long tang, cast and chased pierced serpentine side-plate, border engraved trigger-guard with fluted bow, baluster ramrod-pipes, and associated iron-capped ramrod (iron parts with surface pitting), London proof marks
30¾in (78.1cm.)