Beschreibung:

A Very Rare 28-Bore Breech-Loading Flintlock Rifled Carbine By Jonadab Holloway, London, circa 1650 With two-stage barrel strongly reinforced at the breech and with a pronounced ring at the muzzle bearing a bead fore-sight, cut with eight grooves and secured to the breech by a two-start thread, decorated at intervals with gold-damascened panels of pellets and scrolls of French pattern book inspiration and signed in script on the top of the breech 'J. Holloway Londini', tang en suite, flat bevelled lock with stepped tail and pierced cock with dog catch, engraved with foliage and signed on a banner above a sphinx, moulded full stock lightly carved in relief with foliage, the fore-stock attached to the barrel by three screws, iron mounts en suite with the barrel, and plain butt-plate forming a button-released cover for a cavity for balls (some wear throughout, principally to gilding, stock chipped and bruised, and with inset repairs) 237/8in. (60.7cm.) barrel