A Continental 11-Bore Military Matchlock Musket
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A Continental 11-Bore Military Matchlock Musket
Second Quarter Of The 17th Century
With octagonal sighted barrel struck with indistinct barrelsmith's marks on the top flat at the breech, plain tang retained from beneath, applied rectangular pan with flash-shield and pivoting cover, flat rectangular lock incised with pairs of vertical lines and with convex serpentine, lightly figured full stock with 'fish-tail' butt of Anglo-Dutch form, flat iron trigger-guard and butt-plate, iron ramrod-band and fore-end band, and wooden ramrod, possibly original, with iron tip
106.5 cm. barrel
Sold for £4,375 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • For two similar examples sold in these Rooms, see Fine Antique Arms and Armour from the Henk. L. Visser Collection, 28 November 2007, lots 258 and 259

Category: Arms and Armour

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