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An Irish 14-Bore (.650) Flintlock Rifled CarbineBy McKnight, Dublin, Early 19th Century
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,805 inc. premium
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An Irish 14-Bore (.650) Flintlock Rifled Carbine
By McKnight, Dublin, Early 19th Century
By McKnight, Dublin, Early 19th Century
With browned twist octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight deep spiral grooves, breech with rectangular gold-lined maker's stamp between engraved gold lines, gold-lined touch-hole, border engraved tang decorated with foliage and a gamebird in a landscape, signed border engraved flat detented lock decorated with a starburst behind the gold-lined rainproof pan and with foliage at the tail, border engraved cock with a gamebird amid foliage, safety-catch and roller, figured half-stock (some old bruising) with cheek-piece, chequered grip and fore-end, the latter with dark horn cap, hinged rectangular steel patch-box cover (catch defective), border engraved steel mounts comprising butt-plate with a martial trophy on the heel tang, scroll trigger-guard with pineapple finial and decorated with a star on the scroll and a martial trophy on the border engraved bow, adjustable set trigger, vacant silver escutcheon, sling mounts, and steel stirrup ramrod (some old surface rust patination)
51.5 cm. barrel
51.5 cm. barrel
Footnotes
A George McKnight is recorded at 14 Wood Street, Dublin between 1835 and 1855







