Blunderbuss with brass barrels, flintlocks and lockplates engraved BLYTH, formerly used on ship-board

Blunderbuss with brass barrels, flintlocks and lockplates engraved BLYTH, formerly used on ship-board

Long gun with a dog lock, showing the Forbes Arms, from Castle Newe, c. 1650

Light blunderbuss with a flint lock, engraved Playfair, Aberdeen

Royal Navy sea service espingole (mounted blunderbuss), c. 1815

A brass-barrelled flintlock blunderbuss with proof marks and initial; ‘IS’ surmounted by a crown; engraving in contemporary script at the breech: ‘This was taken from a Highlander at Preston 1715 loaded with 17 balls’; flintlock is signed ‘HW MORTIMER’