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A Rare Flemish Gunner's Double LinstockMid-17th Century
1 December 2009, 14:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,200 inc. premium
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Mid-17th Century
Mid-17th Century
With flat ovoidal head etched on each side with scrolled shield bearing a crowned lion against a partly hatched ground, drawn-out at the top to form a slender spike of stiff diamond section, and with curved match-holders secured by screws on either side beneath, each head formed as a stylised monster's head with wing-screw for setting the position of the match, tapering socket of circular section with three ring mouldings, and long side-straps, on painted wooden staff of circular section, possibly original, with later tassels
43 cm. head
43 cm. head
Footnotes
Provenance:
Miss Dorothy Taylor, Greythwaite, Whalley, Lancashire
By repute the Earls of Pembroke




