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DOLEP, LONDON
AN EARLY 22-BORE FLINTLOCK TURN-OVER CARBINE WITH ASYMMETRICAL BARRELS, no visible serial number,
circa 1690, with slightly swamped iron barrels of 14 1/2in. and 8in. respectively, the top of the shorter example signed 'DOLEP, LONDON', boat-shaped fore-sights to both, London proofs and an unidentified barrel maker's mark of 'S.F.' within a heart below a diamond device at breech, each barrel with its own pan and frizzen mounted on a sideplate dove-tailed to the front portion of the turn-over plate, long squared top-tang, radiused back-action lock with scroll engraving and swan-necked cock, the lock signed 'DOLEP' near tail, walnut hand-rail butt-stock with later 2 1/2in. extension in wood re-using the original iron heel-plate, a large oval brass plaque inlet to the left side inscribed 'WM. TWEMLOW' and 'HATHERTON 1686' around an engraving of a crest featuring a parrot on a cut log above a wreath, iron trigger guard bow and lower tang, pierced and engraved iron sideplate featuring a hunter engaging a wolf and another sounding a long horn, catch for releasing the barrels forwards of the guard, walnut side fillets to the barrels and offset period ramrod with worm tip
Provenance: Dolep was a Huguenot gunmaker who settled and traded in London between 1681 to around 1713.
The plaque would appear to be correct, as William Twemlow instigated Hatherton (hunting) Lodge in 1686, and this piece could quite possibly commemorate that event. It would appear that at some point in its working life, this gun met with an accident resulting in one barrel being shortened to the current length
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Estimate £500-700