Two Musketoons, Two comparable copies of a flint blunderbuss, front loader, incomplete. The brass barrels are not held on the drawer with brackets, but have small eyes at the bottom, through which pins are inserted, which also go straight through the drawer. The barrels are of a slightly different fabric with small differences in ornaments, and one of them has a tailpiece made of iron instead of brass. One bus has an English lock, Tower signed and marked with a crowned VR monogram, the cock is missing from this slot. The other lock is unnoticed and the pan lid and upper jaw of the cock are missing. One canister has an iron charging stick. The thunderbushes may have been made on Borneo., anonymous, United Kingdom, c. 1850 - c. 1880, iron (metal), brass (alloy), wood (plant material), (A): l 93 cm × c 49 mm (B): l 102 cm × c 53.6 mm
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