Thomas Del Mar - Arms & Armour

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AN 8 BORE FLINTLOCK WILDFOWLING GUN BUY T.
LANE, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1770
with lightly swamped barrel fitted with steel fore-sight and
engraved with scrolling foliage over the breech, engraved
grooved tang, signed rounded lock engraved with a scroll
on the tail, figured walnut full stock carved with a raised
scallop moulding about the barrel tang, brass mounts
engraved with rococo ornament, comprising solid sideplate,
butt-plate, trigger-guard decorated with a flower and
with acorn finial of early form, four ramrod-pipes,
escutcheon engraved with an expanded flowerhead (the
steel parts with light pitting, fore-end cracked)
153.3cm; 60G in
Thomas Lane is recorded as a gun and pistol maker at
Newhall Street, Birmingham circa 1766-81.
£1500-2000