A Rare 10-Bore Flintlock Wildfowling Gun By John 2 Shaw, London, circa 1690 With swamped sighted barrel with a raised moulding at the muzzle and breech, plain tang, border engraved lock (replaced), moulded full stock (minor bruising), iron mounts including finely pierced and chiselled side-plate with foliate terminals and involving a monster-head, the trigger-guard with chiselled foliate finial, four baluster iron ramrod-pipes, and iron-capped ramrod (replaced) 54 7/8in. (139.4cm.) barrel John 2 Shaw was one of the most distinguished English gunmakers of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries. He was apprenticed in Bristol, but already working in London 1665-8. Free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1673, he was successively Gunsmith-in-Ordinary to Charles II, James II, William III and George I. He died in 1720. Several of the early English guns at Gunton Park were made by him
A Rare 10-Bore Flintlock Wildfowling Gun By John 2 Shaw, London, circa 1690 With swamped sighted barrel with a raised moulding at the muzzle and breech, plain tang, border engraved lock (replaced), moulded full stock (minor bruising), iron mounts including finely pierced and chiselled side-plate with foliate terminals and involving a monster-head, the trigger-guard with chiselled foliate finial, four baluster iron ramrod-pipes, and iron-capped ramrod (replaced) 54 7/8in. (139.4cm.) barrel John 2 Shaw was one of the most distinguished English gunmakers of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries. He was apprenticed in Bristol, but already working in London 1665-8. Free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1673, he was successively Gunsmith-in-Ordinary to Charles II, James II, William III and George I. He died in 1720. Several of the early English guns at Gunton Park were made by him
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