Product Details
PARKER, LONDON
A FINE AND RARE 18-BORE FLINTLOCK ALL-BRASS BLUNDERBUSS WITH UNDER-SLUNG SPRING BAYONET,
circa 1800, with 14 1/2in two-stage triple-banded barrel, the top-flat engraved 'HOLBORN, LONDON', engraved solid iron tang, flat, slightly curved bevel-edged brass border-lined lockplate with stepped tail, signed forwards of the hammer 'W. PARKER', figured walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist, silver shield-shaped escutcheon to top of wrist, brass heel-plate with border decorated long spur, brass double rolled edge trigger-guard with border engraving, pineapple finial with exposed iron 'trigger-blade' to release the under-slung triangular section sprung bayonet and a side-mounted brass-tipped wooden ramrod
Estimate £3,000-4,000