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A Rare Massive 6-Bore Commercial Flintlock Rampart Gun With Smuggling AssociationsBy Brander Of London, Late 18th Century
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A Rare Massive 6-Bore Commercial Flintlock Rampart Gun With Smuggling Associations
By Brander Of London, Late 18th Century
By Brander Of London, Late 18th Century
140.5 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Offered with a framed manuscript note reading 'This gun belonged to the smuggling lugger owned by Thomas Ballantine near Givvan on one occasion used with others against the Revenue Cruiser sending her into Lochryan with four feet of water in her hold'. Givvan and Loch Ryan are on the east coast of Scotland
Martin Brander, son of William 2 Brander, was elected Master of the Gunmakers' Company in 1792 and 1807. He joined the Honorable Artillery Company in 1781, was Contractor to Ordnance from 1798 to 1820 and to the East India company between 1791 and 1826. He was in partnership with Thomas Potts between 1802 and his death in 1827
