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Lot 85

A Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Blunderbuss
By T. Saunders, Circa 1690

24 June – 8 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,920 inc. premium

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A Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Blunderbuss
By T. Saunders, Circa 1690

With two-stage barrel flared at the muzzle, the octagonal breech section engraved with foliage and signed along the top flat, plain iron tang, rounded border engraved lock (an 18th century working replacement, steel replaced) decorated with foliage, cock en suite, figured full stock (old worming) with apron around the barrel tang, cast and chased brass mounts comprising engraved foliate side-plate, shaped escutcheon engraved with a male portrait bust, butt-plate engraved with foliage and a flower-head, border engraved trigger-guard, turned ramrod-pipe, and brass-tipped ramrod, London proof marks and Thomas Saunder's barrelsmith's mark
41.4 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Thomas 1 Saunders was apprenticed to Robert Silke and turned over to Thomas Austin in 1675. Free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1682, he was elected Master in 1707. He was Gunmaker to Ordnance between 1688 and 1715

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