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A very rare 32-bore first model seven-barrelled flintlock volley gunBy Henry Nock of London, circa 1780
11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £15,000 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA very rare 32-bore first model seven-barrelled flintlock volley gun
By Henry Nock of London, circa 1780
By Henry Nock of London, circa 1780
With russet barrels sighted and with a rib along the top, the barrel on the right side with faint traces of maker's name at the breech, plain tang grooved for sighting, flat bevelled back-action lock (cock and sear-spring replaced) engraved 'Tower' and with remains of 'GR' crowned across the tail, the interior of the plate stamped 'HN' over '9', and steel-spring mounted beneath the pan, the latter stamped with crowned broad arrow Ordnance mark beneath, figured butt (some bruising, repaired above the lock), brass mounts of service pattern comprising rounded scroll side-plate, butt-plate and trigger-guard, brass ramrod-pipes, the forward one with ramrod-retaining spring, and later ramrod (some wear overall, steel parts with light pitting), Tower private proof marks
51 cm. barrels
51 cm. barrels
Footnotes
One of an order of five hundred guns of this pattern supplied by Nock in batches of twenty to fifty at a time throughout 1780 at a cost of £13 each. For further information see Howard L. Blackmore, British Military Firearms 1650-1850, 1961, pp. 91-93; and D.W. Bailey, British Military Longarms 1715-1865, 1971, p.65, no.71
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