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Lot 326

A Rare Massive 6-Bore Commercial Flintlock Rampart Gun With Smuggling Associations
By Brander Of London, Late 18th Century

27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Massive 6-Bore Commercial Flintlock Rampart Gun With Smuggling Associations
By Brander Of London, Late 18th Century

With swamped barrel and prominent fore-sight, grooved tang, signed border engraved flat bevelled lock with ring-neck cock en suite, figured full stock (some worming overall, chipped behind the tail of the lock, butt with old splits on one side) with apron around the barrel tang, brass mounts of regulation short land pattern type, original iron ramrod, and with its iron stirrup peg mount (iron parts with surface pitting), indistinct proof marks (2)
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

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