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AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE 80-BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN OF SMALL SIZE FOR A CHILD, UNSIGNED, no visible serial number,
Utrecht, circa 1660, with ribless 29in. barrels, iron foresight bead, the breech-ends on each barrel octagonal changing to sixteen-sided, Utrecht mark stamped at breech, the barrels joined by two shaped iron bands, plain top-tang, radiused back-action locks with pointed tails, the acanthus scroll engraving terminating in profiled heads and engraved 'UTRECHT' beneath the pans, fruitwood butt-stock of bellied style (some inlet repairs and old cracks), lightly carved around the lock and top-tang, curved stained imitation 'butt-plate', iron furniture, separate fruitwood fore-end plates carved forwards and around the lock fronts, two turned ramrod thimbles, each securing the barrels and possible original iron-mounted ramrod (some staining to exposed iron surfaces, mainly barrels)
Provenance: Ex Lot 304 Bonhams Fine Antique Arms and Armour from the Henk L. Visser Collection, Wednesday 28th November 2007
Literature: G. de Vries and B.J. Martens The Visser Collection vol. 1, part 4, cat. no. 918 pp.538-539,
Other Notes: The authors of the above also suggest that the mark on the breech-end is 'PC', that of the Proofmaster of Utrecht, Philip Cornelisz who was active between circa 1660 to 1667
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Estimate £2,700-3,200