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Lot 3384

An English flintlock trap gun
circa 1800
-Select US Arms Type-

10 June 2013, 10:00 PDT
San Francisco

Sold for US$936 inc. premium

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An English flintlock trap gun
circa 1800

Of familiar form, the 12 inch barrel with belled muzzle, the barrel and lock, marked Dingham, enclosed within a wooden framework and fitted with a long bar to trip the trigger, the tip with three rings, the bottom of the frame with adjustable stud mount.
Condition: Fair. Metal with dark patina and areas of pitting. Wood with losses and worming.
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Footnotes

Note: For a discussion and illustration of this form of trap gun see page 109-110 113 in Firearms Curiosa by Lewis Winant. The author states that this type of gun was popular in late 18th and early 19th century England for use against poacher and, supposedly, grave robbers. Its use was forbidden by law in 1827.

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