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A Fine And Rare 100-Bore Flintlock Seven-Barrelled Goose RifleBy Henry Nock, London, Gun Maker To His Majesty, Late 18th Century
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Find your local specialistA Fine And Rare 100-Bore Flintlock Seven-Barrelled Goose Rifle
By Henry Nock, London, Gun Maker To His Majesty, Late 18th Century
By Henry Nock, London, Gun Maker To His Majesty, Late 18th Century
60.9 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Seven-barrel sporting rifles, for birds as well as roe deer, were made popular by Colonel Thomas Thornton's A Sporting Tour through the Northern Parts of England (1804) and A Sporting Tour through France (1805). Thornton himself was so enthusiastic about them that he commissioned a fourteen-barrelled example, now in the Musée d'Armes in Liège (inv. no. Ael/5866)
For further information on rifles of this type see W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, 1989, pp. 109-110
Henry Nock took livery in 1795, was elected Master of the Gunmakers' Company in 1802 and was appointed Gunsmith-in-Ordinary to King George III in 1789. He is famous as the principle maker of seven-barrelled volley guns and rifles. He produced a total of 655 guns for naval service, and a silver-mounted sporting rifle for the Prince of Wales, today in the collection of H.M. the Queen at Windsor Castle (inv. no. L 154). He died in 1804
For another example by the same maker (no. 2949 for 1797) and formerly in the W. Keith Neal Collection see Christie's London, 9 November 2000, lot 101 (£18,000 including premium)








