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Lot 227

A Rare Irish Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Blunderbuss For The County Wicklow Police
By Rigby & Son, Dublin, Early 19th Century

25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Irish Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Blunderbuss For The County Wicklow Police
By Rigby & Son, Dublin, Early 19th Century

With two-stage brass barrel turned and belled at the muzzle and fitted with spring bayonet beneath released by a lever on the trigger-guard finial, octagonal breech signed along the top flat and stamped with Irish registration number beneath, plain tang, signed flat bevelled lock (some pitting) engraved with foliage on the stepped tail and on the ring-neck cock, raised pan and roller, artificially figured half-stock (refurbished), plain brass mounts including butt-plate engraved 'Co Wicklow Police' on the tang, brass fore-end cap, and later side-mounted ramrod
37 cm. barrel

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