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Lot 285
A Liège Flintlock Blunderbuss-PistolBy Velu, Late 18th Century
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Including property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections
27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £765 inc. premium
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By Velu, Late 18th Century
By Velu, Late 18th Century
With etched twist barrel turned around the flared muzzle and at the breech, engraved tang, flat bevelled lock stepped at the tail and signed beneath the steel-spring, the latter with roller, moulded figured full stock carved with foliage at the barrel tang and with beaked rounded pommel, border engraved brass mounts decorated with foliage including trigger-guard with acorn finial and beaked butt-cap, and original iron-capped ramrod
13.4 cm. barrel
13.4 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Emmanuel Velu is recorded in Liège between 1794 and 1799








