A Fine Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Blunderbuss

A Fine Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Blunderbuss By H. Delany, Londini, Early 18th Century With three-stage barrel flared at the muzzle and signed in capitals along the top of the breech, plain tang, signed round lock, artificially figured rootwood full stock with raised apron around the barrel tang, border engraved brass mounts comprising flat scroll side-plate with foliate tail, shaped vacant escutcheon, butt-plate with long sharply tapering tang and decorated with strawberry foliage on the heel, trigger-guard decorated en suite and with trefoil-shaped finial, baluster rear ramrod-pipe, the other plain, and later ramrod, London proof marks and indistinct barrelsmith's mark 38.2 cm. barrel Footnotes: Provenance Sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms, Armour & Modern Sporting Guns, 24 November 2021, lot 236 The Penrose Collection Henry Delany (or Delaney), a Huguenot, was admitted to the freedom of the Gunmakers' Company in 1715. He is recorded as a maker of fine breech-loading sporting guns and silver-mounted pistols, and was the maker of a large crossbow with built-in cranequin in the Marquis of Bath's collection, Longleat. See J.F. Hayward, 'The Huguenot Gunmakers of London', J.A.A.S., Vol. VI, No. 4 (December 1968), pp. 124-125 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing