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A Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Blunderbuss With Spring Bayonet Mounted BeneathBy C. Grierson, London, Late 18th/Early 19th Century
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,785 inc. premium
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A Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Blunderbuss With Spring Bayonet Mounted Beneath
By C. Grierson, London, Late 18th/Early 19th Century
By C. Grierson, London, Late 18th/Early 19th Century
With three-stage barrel turned and belled at the muzzle and engraved 'London' along the top flat of the octagonal breech, border engraved tang decorated with foliage, signed border engraved flat bevelled lock decorated with a line of foliage at the stepped tail, foliate engraved cock, figured half-stock, border engraved brass mounts comprising butt-plate decorated with a basket of foliage on the heel tang, trigger-guard with suspended foliage en suite on the bow, the finial incorporating the barrel-release, and later side-mounted steel ramrod (bayonet with some pitting), Tower private proof marks
39.7 cm. barrel
39.7 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Charles Grierson is recorded at 10 New Bond Street, London between 1793 and 1844. He was a former workman of John Manton and Gunmaker to George III







