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GRIFFIN & TOW, LONDON
AN UNUSUAL 22-BORE FLINTLOCK BRASS-BARRELLED BLUNDERBUSS, no visible serial number,
circa 1770 for the continental market, with flared brass 15 3/4in. barrel, signed along and engraved sighting rib 'GRIFFIN & TOW, LONDON', barrel-makers mark of 'I.G.' and London proofs to breech, engraved iron top-tang, borderline engraved radiused lockplate signed 'GRIFFIN & TOW', wide sliding safe behind the hammer, walnut handrail full-stock with sunken finely chequered panels at the grip and fore-end, carved tear-drop cheek-piece with swollen comb, curved iron French-style heel-plate, flat-based iron trigger-guard bow with pillar front, the bow engraved with a standing goat, urn finial, iron sideplate in the form of seated opposed lions, iron ramrod finials and original ramrod (some worm and age splitting to stock
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Estimate £800-1,200