25th Feb, 2015 9:00 GMT/BST

Militaria & Ethnographica

 
Lot 520
 

520

An 18th Century Tower Flintlock Blunderbuss, the 43cm flared steel barrel with Tower Ordnance...

An 18th Century Tower Flintlock Blunderbuss, the 43cm flared steel barrel with Tower Ordnance markings, the rounded lock plate with double line engraved border enclosing TOWER and crowned GR, the walnut full stock with brass ramrod pipe, trigger guard, side plate and butt plate with rounded tang, the right side of the butt stamped 19, with JL behind the trigger guard tang, the underside of the stock along the ramrod groove stamped VIII, with brass tipped wood ramrod

Sold for £900
Estimated at £900 - £1,200


 

Action works, holds at full and half cock. Bruising and scratches to the stock

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Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 25th Feb, 2015

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