Wallis & Wallis
Lot 159
A rare, possibly unique, take down flintlock blunderbuss with spring bayonet, by Sharpe, c 1800, 31½” overall, bell mouth barrel 15½”, comprising 7” steel breech section with platinum touch hole, false breech with slightly raised panels, and engraved with sunburst, and screw off 9” brass muzzle section, with 8” spring bayonet beneath; flat line engraved lock having flat swan neck cock and roller on the frizzen spring, plate engraved “Sharpe” and with small bird in flight on the tail; walnut halfstock with chequered wrist, the butt being detachable by means of a bayonet catch, engraved steel mounts including trigger guard with pineapple finial, trigger beneath the fore end which operates a rod through the ramrod pipe to release the bayonet, and with rectangular silver barrel wedge plates and horn fore end cap. Good Working Order and Condition (some scoring to stock, light surface rust to breech, patches of deeper rust to the bayonet, bayonet locking lug missing). When dismantled these three parts occupy a maximum length of 12”. Plate 40
