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A Very Rare Irish Brass-Barrelled Flintlock BlunderbussBy W. Guinness, Dublin, Early 18th Century
22 April 2009, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £14,400 inc. premium
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By W. Guinness, Dublin, Early 18th Century
By W. Guinness, Dublin, Early 18th Century
With three-stage barrel flared at the muzzle and signed between turned mouldings at the breech, the latter decorated with a panel of engraved foliage and stamped with Tipperary, South Riding registration mark 'S-T 406', border engraved tang, border engraved flat lock (dog-catch missing) signed within a foliate oval and decorated with foliage on the bevelled tail, moulded figured full stock carved with a trefoil in low relief behind the rear ramrod-pipe and barrel tang, brass mounts comprising cast, pierced and chased foliate side-plate involving a profile grotesque mask, vacant foliate escutcheon, butt-plate stamped with further Tipperary, South Riding registration mark and decorated with scrolling foliage on the border engraved bulbous heel, long foliate engraved slender tang extending along the comb of the butt, engraved trigger-guard with trefoil finials, and turned baluster brass ramrod-pipes, and later horn-tipped ramrod (iron parts with some surface rust)
36 cm. barrel
36 cm. barrel
Footnotes
A Will Guinness is recorded in Dublin between 1714-20. See Richard J. Garrett, Irish Gunmakers, 2008, p. 28








