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Lot 285

A Liège Flintlock Blunderbuss-Pistol
By Velu, Late 18th Century

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Liège Flintlock Blunderbuss-Pistol
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

Footnotes

Emmanuel Velu is recorded in Liège between 1794 and 1799

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