Fine Modern & Antique Guns - June 2013 : Sale A1072 Lot 403
GABBITAS, BRISTOL A 16-BORE FLINTLOCK BRASS-BARRELLED BLUNDERBUSS FOR RESTORATION, no visible serial number,

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GABBITAS, BRISTOL
A 16-BORE FLINTLOCK BRASS-BARRELLED BLUNDERBUSS FOR RESTORATION, no visible serial number,
circa 1785, with two-stage cannon muzzled 12in. barrel banded at the intersections, private proofs to breech, the top-flat signed 'GABBITAS, BRISTOL', iron solid top-tang, flat step-tailed bevel-edged lockplate (neck of cock broken through and top missing), walnut handrail full-stock (chipped at toe, heel-plate missing), brass trigger-guard and serpentine side-plate, brass ramrod throat and thimble together with remnants of the possibly original frozen ramrod (iron surfaces corroded, some cracking and small losses to wood)

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Estimate £400-600