Original British Sea Service Flintlock Brass Barreled Blunderbuss by John Dafte- Circa 1690 Replica Non-Firing Machine Guns This single-shot breechloading carbine incorporates

This single-shot breechloading carbine incorporates Whitworth pattern hexagonal rifling to stabilize the long length

Original Item:   Following the overall profile of the British No

and this was all stuffed in an old writing box

and is nicely marked with a CROWN over V

After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte following his retreat from Moscow in 1812 and his exile to the island of Elba

Original British Sea Service Flintlock Brass Barreled Blunderbuss by John Dafte- Circa 1690 Replica Non-Firing Machine Guns This single-shot breechloading carbine incorporatesOriginal Item: Only One Available. Another extraordinary piece acquired in IMAs purchase of the Strakarty collection of Vienna, Austria. John Dafte was admitted to the Gunmaker's Company on November 12th 1668. He set up shop in Boswell Court near Sheare Lane in London where he survived in business until his death in 1697. One of the best known London Gun makers of his day, he was continually skirting trouble, not only with the Proof House, The Gun