57.25inch sighted multi-stage barrel with faceted midpoint and further faceted behind the flared muzzle, dated 1591 at the breech, border engraved stepped lock signed CONWAY, half stocked with chequered wrist, border engraved brass and steel mounts, shield-shaped white metal escutcheon engraved with the owner's initials J.H. brass topped wooden ramrod. See Great British Gunmaker's 1540-1740 by Neal and Back, page 69 for a description and photo of another English matchlock barrel engraved Tilbury 1588 on the flat and also page 168 for a photograph and description of a fowling piece by John Blanckle (1680) for another gun with an Elizabethan barrel.