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Descrizione : 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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