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LOT 1814
Stuart Period Bronze Toy Petronel
EARLY-MID 17TH CENTURY A.D.
3 1/2 in. (22.3 grams, 90 mm).
The barrel octagonally facetted, drilled touch hole or gunpowder pan, rectangular trigger guard, bifacial ring-and-dot ornament to the 'fishtail' butt. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired early 1990s.
From an East Anglian private collection.
This gun is possibly Egan and Forsyth's Type 2.
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