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A Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Deck-Blunderbuss Or Wall-Piece

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Lot 391*
A Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Deck-Blunderbuss Or Wall-Piece
By Chas. Cooper, Birmingham, Late 19th Century

Sold for £ 1,500 (US$ 1,804) inc. premium

Antique Arms and Armour including items from the E.A. Christensen Collection

28 Nov 2012, 11:00 GMT

London, Knightsbridge

A Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Deck-Blunderbuss Or Wall-Piece
By Chas. Cooper, Birmingham, Late 19th Century
The massive barrel with a ring behind the turned and belled muzzle, and numbered '12' at the breech, plain iron tang, rounded lock stamped 'Cooper London', ring-neck cock (steel-spring missing), lightly figured full stock (split beneath the lock, large repair above the lock), stamped 'Chas. H. Cooper, Maker, Birmingham' one side of the butt, the fore-end (split) drilled for a peg mount (missing), brass mounts comprising rounded side-plate, butt-plate, trigger-guard and ramrod-pipe, and later brass-tipped ramrod, Birmingham proof marks
61.2 cm.

Footnotes

  • Charles Henry Cooper is recorded at various addresses in Birmingham between 1888 and 1900. He was successor to the firm of Cooper & Goodman

    For more information see Frederick Wilkinson, Those Entrusted With Arms ..., 2002, pp. 138-139
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