A Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Blunderbuss By Wilson, London, Late 18th Century
A Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Blunderbuss
By Wilson, London, Late 18th Century
With three-stage barrel turned and belled at the muzzle and engraved 'LONDON' along the breech, grooved border engraved tang, signed border engraved rounded lock decorated with a frond on the tail, figured full stock (some old repairs) carved with a rudimentary shell behind the tang, border engraved brass mounts sparsely decorated with foliage and comprising shaped flat side-plate, butt-plate, trigger-guard with foliate finial, vacant escutcheon with engraved shell above, turned ramrod-pipes, and later horn-tipped ramrod with steel worm, London proof marks and barrelsmith's mark of Richard 1 Wilson
19 cm. barrel
Richard 1 Wilson was born in 1703 and in 1718 was apprenticed to his uncle Thomas Green. He was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1725, elected Master in 1741 and died in 1766
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A Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Blunderbuss
By Wilson, London, Late 18th Century
With three-stage barrel turned and belled at the muzzle and engraved 'LONDON' along the breech, grooved border engraved tang, signed border engraved rounded lock decorated with a frond on the tail, figured full stock (some old repairs) carved with a rudimentary shell behind the tang, border engraved brass mounts sparsely decorated with foliage and comprising shaped flat side-plate, butt-plate, trigger-guard with foliate finial, vacant escutcheon with engraved shell above, turned ramrod-pipes, and later horn-tipped ramrod with steel worm, London proof marks and barrelsmith's mark of Richard 1 Wilson
19 cm. barrel
Richard 1 Wilson was born in 1703 and in 1718 was apprenticed to his uncle Thomas Green. He was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1725, elected Master in 1741 and died in 1766
