A Very Rare 32-Bore English Flintlock Breech-Loading Repeating Magazine Gun On The Lorenzoni Principle By Henry Ellis Of Doncaster, Circa 1690With two-stage barrel swollen at the muzzle and with crescent-shaped fore-sight between side supports, octagonal breech becoming polygonal and with turned girdle beyond, rounded slightly curved back-action lock with moulded border and finely engraved with scrolling foliage terminating in a characteristic monster's head, rounded cock en suite, engraved with scrolling foliage and cocked automatically via a flat bar engaging with the circular brass breech-block and operated by the side-lever, hinged priming magazine cover engraved 'H. Ellis Fecit', action with circular gas-escape above and below, hinged sprung magazine cover for balls on the left, curved side-lever tapering to a small spherical terminal, border engraved trigger-guard with moulded borders on the bow and chiselled foliate finial, later figured butt with moulded borders and iron butt-plate, the latter with prominent rounded heel engraved en suite with the lock within moulded borders issuing from the mouth of a chiselled and engraved monster, and later cast, pierced and chased vacant foliate escutcheon 67 cm. barrel FootnotesProvenance Ex Lord Riverdale Collection The Late Danny Wing Collection, sold in these Rooms, 25 July 2007, lot 313 Henry Ellis was one of the most distinguished of the English seventeenth-century provincial gunmakers, and his production seems to date from about 1690, and to extend to at least 1712, when he appears as 'gunsmith' in the records of the Borough of Doncaster. He was admitted to the freedom of Doncaster on 15 November 1698, and died in 1722 or 1723. See W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, 1984, pp. 184-5Saleroom noticesThe butt-plate is expertly replaced. The escutcheon appears to be original.
A Very Rare 32-Bore English Flintlock Breech-Loading Repeating Magazine Gun On The Lorenzoni Principle By Henry Ellis Of Doncaster, Circa 1690With two-stage barrel swollen at the muzzle and with crescent-shaped fore-sight between side supports, octagonal breech becoming polygonal and with turned girdle beyond, rounded slightly curved back-action lock with moulded border and finely engraved with scrolling foliage terminating in a characteristic monster's head, rounded cock en suite, engraved with scrolling foliage and cocked automatically via a flat bar engaging with the circular brass breech-block and operated by the side-lever, hinged priming magazine cover engraved 'H. Ellis Fecit', action with circular gas-escape above and below, hinged sprung magazine cover for balls on the left, curved side-lever tapering to a small spherical terminal, border engraved trigger-guard with moulded borders on the bow and chiselled foliate finial, later figured butt with moulded borders and iron butt-plate, the latter with prominent rounded heel engraved en suite with the lock within moulded borders issuing from the mouth of a chiselled and engraved monster, and later cast, pierced and chased vacant foliate escutcheon 67 cm. barrel FootnotesProvenance Ex Lord Riverdale Collection The Late Danny Wing Collection, sold in these Rooms, 25 July 2007, lot 313 Henry Ellis was one of the most distinguished of the English seventeenth-century provincial gunmakers, and his production seems to date from about 1690, and to extend to at least 1712, when he appears as 'gunsmith' in the records of the Borough of Doncaster. He was admitted to the freedom of Doncaster on 15 November 1698, and died in 1722 or 1723. See W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, 1984, pp. 184-5Saleroom noticesThe butt-plate is expertly replaced. The escutcheon appears to be original.
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