Thomas Del Mar - Arms & Armour

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A 20 BORE D.B. PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN BY
JOSEPH MANTON, DAVIES STREET, BERKELEY SQUARE,
LONDON, NO. 2046, CIRCA 1803,
rebuilt from flintlock by Samuel and Charles Smith with signed
rebrowned barrels fitted with a short semi-circular fore-sight
on the rib at the muzzles, engraved reblued breeches fitted
with anvils for mushroom percussion caps, scroll-engraved
grooved breech tang, signed stepped bevelled locks engraved
with foliage on the tails, scroll-engraved hammers, figured
walnut half-stock, chequered grip, engraved steel mounts
comprising trigger-guard decorated with a trophy-of-arms on
the bow and with pineapple finial, butt-plate, ramrod-pipes,
silver barrel bolt escutcheons, and vacant silver escutcheon,
and brass-tipped wooden ramrod: in original fitted mahogany
case lined in green baize (the lining worn, trade label with
small tears), the lid with flush-fitted brass carrying handle,
brass escutcheon engraved with the owner’s crest, a badger
proper, and initials ‘ESB’, an additional plaque inscribed ‘Capt.
Newnham Davis’, and retaining some associated accessories
including a brass bullet mould for a .450 rifle
80cm; 31I in barrels
Literature:
W. Keith Neal and D. H. L. Back, The Mantons: Gunmakers,
London 1966, p.234.
£500-800
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A FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS BY ROBERT GAROOD,
CIRCA 1730
with two-stage brass barrel swelling towards the muzzle,
stamped with London proof and the barrelsmith’s mark at
the breech, signed flat lock with flat cock and faceted pan
(patinated), figured hardwood full stock carved with a
raised moulding about the barrel tang (the fore-end with
cracks and reparis), moulded brass mounts including flat
flush-fitting side-plate of shaped outline, butt-plate, and
trigger-guard with bulbous finial (later ramrod)
76.8cm; 30D in
Robert Garrood was apprenticed to Francis Smart in 1714,
became free of the Gunmaker’s Company in 1722, and
Master in 1740. He was a contractor to the Royal African
Company 1729-44.
£1000-1200
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