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Lot 498

A Rare 18-Bore Flintlock Breech-Loading Silver-Mounted Rifled Carbine
By H. Delaney Of London, Circa 1730

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare 18-Bore Flintlock Breech-Loading Silver-Mounted Rifled Carbine
By H. Delaney Of London, Circa 1730

With two-stage turn-off barrel with turned swelling muzzle, rifled with eight spiral grooves and fitted with retaining ring working on a hinged bar at the breech, signed border engraved action and breech, the latter engraved with a band of foliage between small spheres in front of the rounded ramp at the rear and with three graduated spheres along the top, border engraved tang, rounded cock and steel decorated en suite, the first secured by a screw and with a trefoil extending over the breech, figured moulded butt (some old scratches and bruising, repaired above the action) carved with foliage behind the tang and forward of the comb, cast and chased mounts comprising pierced foliate side-plate, vacant foliate escutcheon with drapery on each side and grotesque mask above, border engraved butt-plate with graduated spheres along the sharply pointed heel tang extending along the comb of the butt, and border engraved iron trigger-guard with pointed finial and a floret on the bow (light rust patination), indistinct marks, probably London proof marks
51.5 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Henry Delaney, a Huguenot, was admitted to the freedom of the Gunmakers' Company in 1715. He is recorded as a maker of fine breech-loading sporting guns and silver-mounted pistols, and was the maker of a large crossbow with built-in cranequin in the Marquis of Bath's Collection, Longleat. See J.F. Hayward, 'The Hugenot Gunmakers of London', J.A.A.S., vol. VI, no. 4 (December 1968), pp. 124-5

Cf. a pair of related carbines by the same maker and sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms, Armour & Modern Sporting Guns, 11 May 2016, lot 232

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