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Lot 376*

An Early Flintlock Blunderbuss-Pistol
By J. Johnson Of London, Late 17th Century

Fine Antique Arms and Armour Including items from the Per T. Norheim Collection
29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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An Early Flintlock Blunderbuss-Pistol
By J. Johnson Of London, Late 17th Century

With three-stage brass barrel flared at the muzzle, turned at the girdle and signed on the border engraved octagonal breech, the latter becoming polygonal and engraved with foliage at the rear, iron tang, border engraved rounded lock decorated with characteristic strawberry foliage, moulded artificially figured full stock (minor hole on one side of the trigger-guard finial) with apron around the barrel tang, brass mounts comprising serpentine side-plate engraved with overlapping scales and with pierced looped tail, border engraved rounded pommel decorated with a flower-head centred on the retaining screw, trigger-guard with shaped engraved finial and decorated with strawberry foliage on the bow, single baluster ramrod-pipe, and iron-capped ramrod, London proof marks and maker's mark
18.8 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Possibly by John 3, 4, 5 or 6 Johnson. John 4 was apprenticed to Godfrey Tailor and turned over to Percival Towle. John 5 was apprenticed to William Bolton and turned over to Edward Ireland in 1679. He was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1686 and was Gunmaker to Ordnance between 1696-1715. John 6 was apprenticed to John Wooll and was in the Gunmakers' Company in 1686

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