This is the rating and price for A Fine Flintlock Blunderbuss, 1680
Description : By John Emerton, London, circa 1680 With belled brass barrel in two stages, the breech section octagonal then polygonal and with slotted ramp at the rear, engraved throughout its length with unusually fine decoration, mainly tulips and foliage, plain iron tang, signed rounded lock engraved with strawberry foliage, moulded figured full stock (minor defects) with a raised apron to the barrel tang, engraved brass mounts including flat butt-plate with long tang, pierced serpentine side-plate, shaped escutcheon, turned brass ramrod-pipes, and later brass-capped ramrod (iron parts with some surface pitting), London proof marks 31in. (78.8cm.) LITERATURE W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, pp. 162-3, plates 50a-e NOTES John Emerton was apprenticed to Robert Silke, and turned over to George Fisher in 1670. Free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1678, he was appointed Gunmaker to Ordnance in 1680, and to the Royal African Co. in 1683. He died in 1684.
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About the lot N° 37 Title : A Fine Flintlock Blunderbuss, Period : 1680 Christie's, auctioneer, London, UKIt's free to register now to view! Sale title : FINE ANTIQUE FIREARMS FROM THE W. KEITH NEAL COLLECTION Sale date : 09 Nov 2000It's free to register now to view! Sale Reference : Live Sale
