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Lot 476

A Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Blunderbuss
Signed Blair, London, Late 18th/Early 19th Century

29 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Blunderbuss
Signed Blair, London, Late 18th/Early 19th Century

With two-stage barrel boldly turned and belled at the muzzle, the breech stamped 'London' and decorated with a small foliate trefoil, grooved tang, signed border engraved flat bevelled lock decorated with foliage on the tail, figured full stock (butt with old repair on one side and minor old worming), border engraved brass mounts decorated with rocailles and foliage comprising shaped flat side-plate, shaped vacant escutcheon, butt-plate and trigger-guard with foliate finial, turned brass ramrod-pipes, and brass-capped ramrod with iron worm, Tower private proof marks and barrelsmith's mark of David Blair
36 cm. barrel

Footnotes

The maker is David Blair recorded in Birmingham between 1786 and 1812. He died in 1814

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