The first mention of flintlocks in England dates back to 1580. The English lock is similar to the Dutch lock: the spring is placed inside, the frizzen and the pan cover are separate, there is a large target (usually circular) at the pan, and there is a cock stop (in the form of a man’s head on this rifle) in front of the hammer. The barrel is marked with the letters “TA” and a cock, the signature of the gunsmith Thomas Addis, working in London from about 1590.
The musket-type stock is richly inlaid with bone and mother-of-pearl, the barrel is also decorated with engravings along its entire length, with hunting motifs predominating in the decoration of the weapon.
Length 1,485 mm, barrel length 1,103 mm, 17 mm calibre, weight 6,028 g.