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A Brass-Barrelled English Lock BlunderbussBy Thomas 1 Green Of London, Late 17th/Early 18th Century
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge£1,500 - £1,800
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A Brass-Barrelled English Lock Blunderbuss
By Thomas 1 Green Of London, Late 17th/Early 18th Century
By Thomas 1 Green Of London, Late 17th/Early 18th Century
With two-stage barrel flared at the muzzle, octagonal breech becoming polygonal and with a ramp notched for sighting at the rear, plain tang, indistinctly signed flat lock with repaired pointed tail and separate pan, flat ring-neck cock with safety-catch (inoperative) at the rear, moulded figured full stock (old bruising, broken through and repaired at the grip, repaired beneath the tail of the lock and on both sides of the fore-end at the muzzle), brass mounts comprising butt-plate, the long pointed heel tang with moulded borders, trigger-guard with pointed foliate finial, single turned baluster ramrod-pipe, and old horn-tipped ramrod with iron worm (tang and lock with light pitting), London proof marks and Green's barrelsmith's mark
42 cm. barrel
42 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Thomas 1 Green was apprenticed to Edward Nicholson in 1686 and free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1693. He was elected Master of the Gunmakers' Company in 1720. He is recorded 'att ye Fowler' in the Minories in 1714 and was Gunmaker to Ordnance, 1697-1715, and to the Royal Africa Company in 1721. He was appointed Viewer and Proofmaster to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1715. Following his death in 1728 the business was carried on by his widow, Agnes








