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An Irish Brass-Barrelled Flintlock BlunderbussBy R. Whitney, Corke, Mid-18th Century
29 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,125 inc. premium
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By R. Whitney, Corke, Mid-18th Century
By R. Whitney, Corke, Mid-18th Century
With two-stage barrel flared at the muzzle, the breech section engraved 'Corke' in script in front of a panel of foliage and stamped with Irish registration mark 'CB-1550' of Cork Borough, engraved tang, signed border engraved rounded lock (light pitting), full stock (fore-stock with old repairs) carved with foliage around the tang (chipped on one side), brass mounts comprising side-plate cast, chased and pierced with foliage centred on a cartouche, vacant foliate escutcheon, border engraved butt-plate decorated with a flower-head emerging from the mouth of a monster-head, border engraved trigger-guard with foliate finial and a flower-head on the bow, brass ramrod-pipes, and later brass-tipped ramrod, Irish proof marks
43.5 cm. barrel
43.5 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Richard Whitney is recorded in Cork in about 1751, and died in 1766




