Lot Essay
John 1 Sibley was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1685, and Master in 1705. He died in 1714
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BY JOHN 1 SIBLEY, LONDON, CIRCA 1700
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A FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS
By John 1 Sibley, London, circa 1700
With three-stage belled iron barrel, the breech section octagonal then polygonal, plain tang, associated rounded lock retaining traces of engraving (cock an 18th-century working replacement), figured walnut full stock (minor chips and cracks) with raised apron at the barrel tang, brass butt-plate with long engraved tang, pierced brass scroll side-plate, associated iron trigger-guard (loose), shaped brass escutcheon engraved with a profile caricature portrait bust, single baluster brass ramrod-pipe, and later brass-tipped ramrod, London proof marks
27½in. (69.8cm.)
By John 1 Sibley, London, circa 1700
With three-stage belled iron barrel, the breech section octagonal then polygonal, plain tang, associated rounded lock retaining traces of engraving (cock an 18th-century working replacement), figured walnut full stock (minor chips and cracks) with raised apron at the barrel tang, brass butt-plate with long engraved tang, pierced brass scroll side-plate, associated iron trigger-guard (loose), shaped brass escutcheon engraved with a profile caricature portrait bust, single baluster brass ramrod-pipe, and later brass-tipped ramrod, London proof marks
27½in. (69.8cm.)
Special notice
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