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A 22-Bore Brass-Mounted Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Brander, London, Circa 1765

26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A 22-Bore Brass-Mounted Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Brander, London, Circa 1765

Reconverted from percussion, with russet three-stage sighted barrel, octagonal breech engraved 'London' along the top flat and with foliage behind, border engraved tang decorated with foliage, indistinctly signed border engraved rounded lock with foliage on the tail, cock en suite (top jaw replaced), figured full stock (minor bruising) with apron around the barrel tang, mounts comprising flat side-plate pierced and engraved with foliage, shaped foliate engraved escutcheon, butt-plate with a foliate design on the border engraved heel tang, border engraved trigger-guard with early form of acorn finial and a flower-head on the bow, baluster ramrod-pipes (forward one replaced), and associated horn-tipped ramrod with iron worn, London proof marks and barrel-forger's mark
100 cm. barrel

Footnotes

The maker is likely to be William 2 Brander elected Master of the Gunmaker's Company in 1767, 1772 and 1779

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