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Lot 229

A Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Blunderbuss
By Lowdell, Lewes, Circa 1820

11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £2,750 inc. premium

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A Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Blunderbuss
By Lowdell, Lewes, Circa 1820

With three-stage barrel turned and belled at the muzzle, signed along the top flat of the octagonal breech and fitted with a spring bayonet above, tang with bayonet catch, signed border engraved flat bevelled lock decorated with a starburst beneath the semi-rainproof pan, roller, figured full stock with chequered grip, border engraved brass trigger-guard with pineapple finial and decorated with a martial trophy on the bow, butt-plate en suite, turned brass ramrod-pipes, and brass-tipped ramrod with iron worm, Birmingham proof marks
35.8 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Stephen Lowdell & Co. is recorded at 61 High Street, Lewes, Sussex, between 1823 and 1826

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