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Lot 86*

A 14-Bore Flintlock Brass-Mounted Coaching Carbine
By Lewis (Louis) Barbar Of London, Circa 1730-40

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

£600 - £800

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A 14-Bore Flintlock Brass-Mounted Coaching Carbine
By Lewis (Louis) Barbar Of London, Circa 1730-40

With swamped two-stage barrel slightly flared at the muzzle and indistinctly signed along the breech, tang indistinctly inscribed 'Sᴿ ROBᵀ WALPOLE', rounded lock signed in capitals and with dog catch holding the replacement cock at the half-cock position, figured full stock (some bruising, fore-end mostly replaced) with apron around the barrel tang, cast and chased mounts comprising pierced side-plate, vacant escutcheon, butt-plate, trigger-guard with urn-shaped finial, single ramrod-pipe, and later brass-capped wooden ramrod, London proof marks and Lewis Barbar's barrelsmith's mark
46.7 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Louis (Lewis) 1 Barbar (d. 1741), a French Protestant, born in Essendun, Poitou, came to London circa 1688 to avoid persecution, and was naturalised in 1700. In 1704 he was made free of the Gunmakers' Company, and his proof piece ('a very fine piece') was passed. He was appointed Gentleman Armourer to King George I in 1717, and to George II in 1727

The inscription on the tang may refer to Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745), 1st Earl Orford, who served as the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1721 and 1742. He also served as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Leader of the House of Commons

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