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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]

Provenance

Acquired early 1990s.
From an East Anglian private collection.

Footnotes

This gun is possibly Egan and Forsyth's Type 2.

CONDITION

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LOT 1814

Stuart Period Bronze Toy Petronel

Sold for (Inc. bp): £78

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