L1139

Gun Furniture - Detail of inscription Long Caption: Side plate from a sea-service musket. It bears the stamp 'J. BUTTALL', that of a known London maker. This is one of a group of pieces extracted from marine concretion, all apparently from the same weapon; the group comprises numbers ZBA0442-0445. Recovered from the wreck site of an unidentified merchantman circa 1780-1815 in the South Edinburgh Channel, Thames Estuary, in 1975. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Object: ZBA0444 Artist: Jonathan Buttall Date: 1780-1815 Medium: brass Size: 1 mm x 157 mm x 40 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.