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Lot 221
A Flintlock Trap GunEarly 19th Century
30 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£450 - £550
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Find your local specialistA Flintlock Trap Gun
Early 19th Century
Early 19th Century
With iron barrel flared at the muzzle and entirely enclosed in a wooden housing secured by two broad iron bands, border engraved rounded lock (top jaw and metal cover missing, jaw screw incomplete), brass side-plates, trip-wire mechanism with pivoting safety-catch, and adjustable iron swivel peg-mount (iron parts with some surface rust)
46.5 cm.
46.5 cm.
Footnotes
Intended as an alarm against poachers, the setting of these traps was forbidden by law in 1827. See Lewis Winant, Firearms Curiosa, 1955, pp. 108, 110 and 113, fig. 112. See also lot 472








