Elaborately Decorated Blunderbuss
Diminutive Size
Presentation or Exhibition...child's or ladies
Barrel, lock, trigger guard, butt plate, and hammer
are decorated with silver overlays; stock is carved
and inlaid with silver wire... - SOLD

This early walnut full-stock blunderbuss is profusely inlaid with silver wire forming scrolls, undulating and straight line borders; also, tiny inlayed silver dots and crescents while all iron is overlaid with intricate openwork engraved silver decoration; the barrel decoration is magnificent. Approximately 21-inches overall; barrel approximately 11.5-inches. No maker's mark, pseudo ramrod within iron pipes. With an 8-inch pull this may have been made for a child or may have been a custom order for a lady or older man to carry in their lap. Some very small areas of silver are missing from the stock, but otherwise the piece is in very good original condition.

980-67/RS-COMM