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Lot 309*

An Unusual Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Blunderbuss
By Bass, Probably John, Late 18th Century

22 April 2009, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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An Unusual Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Blunderbuss
By Bass, Probably John, Late 18th Century

With two-stage barrel with elliptical muzzle and fitted with spring bayonet above, octagonal breech engraved 'London' in script along the top flat, signed flat bevelled lock with roller (cock repaired), figured full stock (minor bruising, repaired behind the lock and tang), brass mounts comprising shaped flat bevelled side-plate, butt-plate and trigger-guard, the last with acorn finial, vacant brass escutcheon and brass ramrod-pipes, and wooden ramrod with iron worm (iron parts with some rust patination), private Birmingham proof marks
39 cm. barrel

Footnotes

John Bass was in partnership with his uncle, John Fox Twigg, as Twigg & Bass between 1788-90. He is recorded at 19 Green Park Row, Piccadilly between 1793 and the year of his death in 1794

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