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Lot 63

A Liège 18-Bore Brass-Mounted Flintlock Sporting Gun
By I. Florkin A Liège, Early 18th Century

24 June – 8 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

£600 - £800

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A Liège 18-Bore Brass-Mounted Flintlock Sporting Gun
By I. Florkin A Liège, Early 18th Century

With rebrowned two-stage barrel with silver fore-sight and turned brass girdle, signed at the breech and struck with a barrelsmith's mark, a standing lion (similar to Neue Støckel 5505), brass breech moulding and brass-covered tang, the latter engraved with foliage, signed faceted lock decorated with foliage within foliate borders, cock en suite, figured moulded full stock (fore-end with some old splits) carved in relief with foliage behind the rear ramrod-pipe, tang, and in front of the flat along the bottom of the butt, cast and chased mounts comprising pierced foliate side-plate inhabited by two cherubs, each blowing a trumpet and centred on a Classical mask, crowned portrait medallion escutcheon within a border of pierced foliage, border engraved butt-plate with sprung hinged cover decorated with a flower-head and opening to reveal a cavity for a bayonet (missing), the heel tang cast and chased with foliage, a grotesque mask and a profile female portrait bust, trigger-guard en suite, scroll trigger, sling loops, faceted baluster brass ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, and original horn-tipped ramrod
110.5 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Provenance
Sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms & Armour..., 24 April 2013, lot 332
The Penrose Collection

A Jean Florkin and a Jean David Florkin are both recorded working in Liège

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