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A GERMAN STEEL DOOR LOCK, 17TH CENTURY with three sprung bolts, enclosed mechanism covered by an engraved and blued steel plate decorated with scrolling foliage involving a central mask and stylised figures and beasts, retained by five blued moulded knobs, and pierced fixing plate engraved and blued en suite, and with a key (refreshed) 28cm; 11in (2) £1400-1800 | Nil |
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| 362 | A LARGE GERMAN STEEL DOOR LOCK, 17TH CENTURY with two sprung bolts and a further latch, enclosed mechanism covered with an engraved and blued plate decorated with a large scroll of foliage terminating in a serpent head issuant with a further large foliate scroll, pierced fixing plate pierced and chiselled with scrolling foliage (cleaned and refreshed), and with a key 28cm; 11in (2) £1000-1200 | Nil |
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| 363 | A LARGE GERMAN STEEL DOOR LOCK, FIRST HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY with three sprung bolts, operated both by the key and a ring handle on the reverse, partly enclosed mechanism covered with solid plates faced with a pair of large iron plates pierced and engraved with scrolling foliage terminating in profile masks, the lock covered by a large faceted cone-shaped cover, with a key (chemically cleaned, losses) 38cm; 15in (2) £1000-1500 | Nil |
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| 364 | A GERMAN STEEL DOOR LOCK, 17TH CENTURY with a single sprung bolt, the mechanism retained by a blued plate engraved with foliage, and the fixing plate pierced and chiselled with foliage, with key (cleaned the bluing oxidised) 21.5cm; 8I in (2) £300-400 | Nil |
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| 365 | A GERMAN STEEL DOOR LOCK, 18TH CENTURY with two sprung bolts and a latch, the former operated by a scalloped lever at the top, fully enclosed mechanism with engraved and blued cover decorated with scrolling foliage, and with a key (cleaned and refreshed) 21cm; 8D in (2) £700-900 | Nil |
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| 366 | A GERMAN STEEL DOOR LOCK, 17TH CENTURY with two sprung bolts, full enclosed mechanism decorated on the top with incised scrolling foliage on a blued ground, on a shaped fixing plate decorated en suite and with a pierced border, and with a key 14cm; 5I in (2) £400-500 | Nil |
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| 367 | A GERMAN STEEL DOOR LOCK, 17TH CENTURY with two sprung bolts, enclosed mechanism covered by a blued and engraved plate decorated with scrolling foliage and retained by five domed screws, on a pierced and chiselled fixing plate, and with a key (restorations and repairs) 19cm; 7I in £500-600 | Nil |
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| 368 | A GERMAN STEEL DOOR LOCK, 17TH CENTURY AND LATER with three sprung bolts, the mechanism fully enclosed and applied with an embossed gilt-brass plaque decorated with strapwork and foliage inhabited by birds of prey, shaped pierced fixing plate decorated with blued foliage and strapwork, and with a key26cm; 10D in (2) £400-500 | Nil |
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| 369 | A GERMAN STEEL DOOR LOCK, LATE 17TH/18TH CENTURY with a single shooting bolt, fitted with a bulb-shaped plate embossed with scrolls and a flowerhead, and with a key (cleaned) 18.5cm; 7D in £300-400 | Nil |
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| 370 | A GERMAN STEEL DOOR LOCK, 17TH CENTURY with two sprung bolts, the springs retained by a pair of engraved scrolling plates, and the barrel engraved with classical profile on the top, with a key 16cm; 6G in high £300-400 | Nil |
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| 371 | A SILESIAN WHEEL-LOCK BIRDING RIFLE (TSCHINKE), MID-17TH CENTURY with slender octagonal swamped sighted barrel rifled with six narrow grooves, punched and chiselled with scrollwork about the fore-sight, over the median and the breech, punched and engraved barrel tang, lock of characteristic form decorated en suite with the barrel, fitted with sliding pan-cover with button release, button catch for setting the sear, flash-guard, and finely engraved dog decorated with a marine monster and further masks, fruitwood full stock profusely inlaid over its entire length with engraved staghorn plaques within symmetrical arrangements of tendrils and pellets all within horn segmental lines (minor restorations and repairs), including hounds, rabbits, marine monsters and scrolls with grotesque heads issuant with flowers, a bear pawing a hound and a camel ridden by a game bird on the cheek-piece, a lion under the trigger-guard, a pair of grotesque jesters forming the trigger-plate, enriched with mother-of-pearl ball flowers throughout, sliding patchbox-cover decorated en suite, engraved horn butt-plate, ramrod-pipes and fore-end cap, iron trigger-guard, and later horn-tipped wooden ramrod 85cm; 33I in barrel £4000-5000 | Nil |
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| 372 | A SILESIAN WHEEL-LOCK BIRDING RIFLE (TSCHINKE), MID-17TH CENTURY with slender octagonal swamped barrel rifled with eight narrow grooves, chiselled with scrollwork over the median, the breech and the tang, lock of characteristic form decorated en suite with the barrel, fitted with sliding pan-cover with button release (button catch for setting the sear missing), flash-guard, and the dog engraved with scrolls, fruitwood full stock profusely inlaid over its entire length with engraved staghorn plaques within a panel of tendrils and pellets all within horn segmental lines (restorations and repairs, the last portion of the fore-end replaced), including hounds, rabbits, and scrolls with grotesque head terminals, a surrendering bear impaled by a huntsman on the cheek-piece, enriched with mother-of-pearl ball flowers throughout, sliding patchbox-cover decorated en suite, engraved horn butt-plate, ramrod-pipes and fore-end cap, iron trigger-guard, and later horn-tipped wooden ramrod 88cm; 34 Nin barrel £3500-4000 | Nil |
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5800 |
| 373 | A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING GUN, DATED 1663 with octagonal swamped sighted barrel stamped with the date and Gotha mark ahead of the back-sight (Neue Stockel 1450), grooved over the breech and stamped twice with the barrelsmith's mark (similar to Neue Stockel 1848), plain flat lock fitted with internal wheel retained by a punched and engraved brass cover, sliding pan-cover with engraved button release, flash-guard, engraved and chiselled dog decorated with a bird on the top-jaw, set trigger, fruitwood full stock inlaid with engraved staghorn plaques including symmetrically arranged pairs of marine monsters over the fore-end within segmental lines, two marine monsters opposite the lock, and the cheek-piece decorated with a horse within a foliate frame, carved with recessed panels in imitation of bark behind the barrel tang and cheek-piece, sliding patchbox-cover engraved with a framed contemporary figure, pierced steel trigger-guard, horn butt-plate, engraved horn ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap, and original engraved horn-tipped wooden ramrod 71cm; 28in barrel A number of firearms of this style stamped with dates ranging from 1655-1683, with Gotha town mark and the makers mark of a bird in conjunction with either the initials AF or GF were in the Gewerkammer of the Princes zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck. £3500-4500 | Nil |
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| 374 | A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE DATED 1653 with octagonal swamped sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves, stamped with the date between a series of punched dots ahead of the back-sight, the barrelsmith's initials 'CR' and a pair of panels of scrolls and flowers over the breech, flat lock fitted with internal wheel retained by an engraved brass cover, sliding pan-cover (button release missing), double set trigger, figured fruitwood full stock inlaid with engraved staghorn panels, including a series of shaped panels enclosing fruit over the fore-end, a hunter taking aim at a stag on the cheek-piece and applied with a further plaque engraved with the date beneath, steel trigger-guard, horn butt-plate and associated bone-tipped wooden ramrod (restorations and repairs, varnished throughout) 77.5cm; 30I in barrel £3000-4000 | Nil |
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| 375 | A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE FOR A CHILD, CIRCA 1640 with octagonal swamped sighted barrel rifled with six grooves, stamped with the barrelsmiths mark and a further mark over the breech including the letters 'IF' (rubbed), plain flat lock with external wheel retained by a pierced shaped bracket, sliding pan-cover with button release, fruitwood full stock inlaid with numerous engraved staghorn plaques, including a hunter taking aim at a rabbit within an architectural landscape and further designs involving game, all enriched with pellets and within horn segmental lines, iron trigger-guard shaped for the fingers, and later engraved staghorn ramrod-pipes and fore-end cap (the steel parts cleaned, the stock and inlays with restorations and repairs)59.5cm; 23G in barrel £3000-4000 | Nil |
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| 376 | A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE FOR A CHILD, CIRCA 1660 with octagonal swamped sighted barrel rifled with nine grooves, plain lock fitted with external wheel retained by a c-shaped bracket, flash-guard, and sliding pan-cover with button release, double set trigger, figured fruitwood full stock inlaid with engraved staghorn rondels and pellets over the fore-end, a pair of expanded flowerheads opposite the lock, and a vacant panel on the cheek-piece, carved with a panel of foliage behind the butt, steel trigger-guard shaped for the fingers, engraved staghorn ramrod-pipe, and later horn-tipped wooden ramrod 43cm; 17in barrel £2000-2500 | Nil |
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| 377 | A FINE PAIR OF VIENNESE WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLES BY ANDREAS ZENNER IN WIENN, CIRCA 1720-30 with octagonal swamped barrels rifled with seven grooves, signed in gold divided by the barrelsmith's gold-lined mark, numbered '1' and '2' in gold respectively and inlaid with a gold cartouche over the breeches, fitted with gilt-brass fore-sights and folding leaf back-sights, engraved barrel tangs, finely engraved locks each decorated with a stag hunting scene and rococo scrolls, enclosed wheels, sliding pan-covers, flash-guards, the dogs each engraved with an allegorical figure, double set triggers, figured walnut full stocks carved with rococo scrolls in low relief about the barrel tangs, ahead of the trigger-guards and to the rear of the butts, carved cheek-pieces, inlaid in contrasting colours with horn and burrwood, sliding patchbox-covers inlaid with further contrasting panels of horn and burrwood, gilt-brass mounts comprising side-plates pierced with strapwork and foliage inhabited by a stag, trigger-guards shaped for the fingers, engraved with a reclining female figure, a portrait bust and with strapwork terminals, engraved trigger-plates, engraved butt-plates, fitted with an engraved recessed plaque for the thumb on the spine of the butt, three faceted ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end caps inlaid with contrasting colours of horn behind, and original wooden ramrods with tips of contrasting pieces of horn en suite (one butt with worm damage, the other fore-end repaired)82cm; 32D in barrels(2) Andreas Zenner came from Bielsko, Poland and is recorded in Vienna circa 1710-26. £10000-12000 | Nil |
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| 378 | A RARE PAIR OF AUSTRIAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLES BY HEINRICH AUER IN SALZBURG, CIRCA 1730 each with swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, signed within a linear panel behind the back-sight and stamped with the platinum lined barrelsmith's stamp, in an oval the letters HA above a shield carrying a bird, engraved tang, engraved flat lock decorated with a bear confronted by a hunter within a landscape, internal wheel, flash-guard, sliding pan-cover, the dog pierced with an arrangement of three entwined serpents, double set trigger (one missing), hardwood full stock stained in imitation of rootwood, lightly carved with foliage about the barrel tang and moulded over the fore-end (one stock with light worm damage, each with small chips), carved cheek-piece inlaid with a panel of contrasting pieces of horn and burrwood, sliding patchbox-cover inlaid with contrasting colours of horn and burrwood, moulded steel trigger-guard shaped for the fingers, steel trigger-plate with foliate terminal, the side nails each with a horn flowerhead washer, horn butt-plate, horn fore-end caps inlaid with contrasting colours of horn, and horn-tipped wooden ramrods, one the original (the ramrod-pipes missing, the steel parts lightly cleaned with chemicals) 84.5cm; 33D in barrels (2) This maker, and his mark, appear to be unrecorded. He is presumably a relative of Johann Heinrich Auer, recorded at 451 and 458 Linzergasse, Salzburg between 1721-63. He stopped working in 1761 when he was disabled by a landslide which severly damaged his house and workshop. The mark may be a pun on Auerhahn, a capercaillie. £8000-10000 | Nil |
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7000 |
| 379 | A BAVARIAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY BALTHASER KIRSCHENHOFER IN BAMBERG, DATED 1709 with two-stage sighted barrel signed and dated ahead of a finely chiselled panel of entwined foliage involving monsterhead profiles and greenman masks over the breech, engraved barrel tang, bevelled lock signed 'BK a Bamberg', finely chiselled with further masks and foliage terminating in grotesques, the steel face and cock each chiselled en suite, engraved trigger decorated with a pierced grotesque mask behind, figured walnut half-stock carved with rococo foliage in relief about the barrel tang and ahead of the trigger-guard, chiselled steel mounts including side-plate centring on a grotesque, butt-plate decorated with acanthus and masks on the tang, trigger-guard engraved with a monsterhead scroll on the bow and with acanthus finial, faceted ramrod-pipes, and vacant escutcheon incorporating a grotesque, and horn fore-end cap (later ramrod) 106cm; 41N in barrel A number of guns by this maker are recorded in the 1724 inventory of the Counts von Schonborn. See A.Sitte 1906, pp.105-109. A gun signed Aeichinger a Bamberg with a strikingly similar side-plate formerly in the collections of the Counts Schenk von Stauffenbergby was sold Sotheby's Olympia, 10th July 2002, lot 248. £2000-2500 | Nil |
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| 380 | A GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN, CIRCA 1720 with three-stage sighted barrel engraved with a profile bust within a frame of foliage over the breech (rubbed) and stamped with a series of marks on the left, plain rounded lock stamped with a mark (Neue Stockel 3222) on the inside, figured walnut half-stock profusely inlaid with arrangements of scrolling flowers and foliage in steel wire and enriched with steel pellets, steel mounts including pierced side-plate involving tendrils with grotesque terminals, trigger-guard with acanthus finial, vacant escutcheon, and butt-plate with tang of shaped outline engraved with foliage (worn, later ramrod) 97.5cm; 38D in barrel £2000-2500 | Nil |
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| 381 | A ROMAN-LOCK SPORTING GUN, CIRCA 1720, Neapolitan or Spanish with tapering barrel formed with a long sighting rib terminating in a bead fore-sight, a pair of further ribs over the breech and stamped with the barrelsmith's marks for H G Coma, engraved breech and barrel tang, a single steel barrel band pierced and engraved with foliage and flowers enclosing a hound retrieving a bird, moulded back-sight carried on a pierced and engraved apron, rounded lock finely engraved with foliage inhabited by an exotic bird and the forward edge chiselled with beaded ornament, engraved with the initials 'FP' inside, highly figured rootwood half-stock, fluted butt in the Italian taste, applied with steel plaques pierced and engraved with elaborate designs of scrolling foliage inhabited by monsters and demi-figures about the barrel tang, on the top and bottom of the butt, and ahead of the trigger-guard, carved wooden trigger-guard reinforced with a further pierced and engraved steel plaque, pierced and engraved steel trigger-plate, applied with a pierced and engraved steel bird-of-prey ahead of the trigger-guard, engraved steel ramrod-pipe, and engraved steel-tipped wooden ramrod, perhaps the original (the stock with worm damage) 108cm; 42N in barrel £1800-2400 | Nil |
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| 382 | A RARE GERMAN MIQUELET-LOCK SPORTING GUN IN THE SPANISH TASTE SIGNED RENZI, EARLY 18TH CENTURY with two-stage swamped sighted barrel, sparsely engraved with foliage on a short flat and stamped with the letter F beneath the breech, engraved tang, signed engraved lock fitted with engraved brass bridle, highly figured hardwood full stock carved with a raised moulding about the barrel tang, brass mounts including side-plate pierced and chiselled in the French manner with scrolling tendrils with monsterhead terminals, butt-plate engraved en suite, applied with a further panel of monsterhead tendrils inhabited by an exotic bird on the underside of the butt, engraved trigger-guard with acanthus finial, faceted ramrod-pipes, the rear rarmod-pipe with a panel matching the side-plate, vacant escutcheon carried by scrolling tendrils and fruit, and fitted with a steel ring behind the side-plate (later ramrod, the stock repaired)80.6cm; 31N in barrel £800-1000 | Nil |
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| 383 | A GERMAN AIR GUN OF BELLOWS TYPE BY F.A.ROTMAUER IN LEGAU, CIRCA 1760with signed octagonal swamped sighted barrel fitted with a brass sleeve, plain tang, fully enclosed mechanism, figured walnut full stock carved and incised with rococo scrollwork about the tang, behind the ramrod-pipe and over the butt, raised cheek-piece carved with further designs and fitted with a bolt for winding the mechanism behind, wooden trigger-guard with brass reinforce of shaped outline, brass mounts including a pair of scrolling panels on each side of the mechanism in imitation of a side-plate, two-piece butt-plate, three ramrod-pipes, and complete with its original brass ramrod incomplete, the stock with minor repairs and worm damage) 81.5cm; 32 in barrelA gun of similar date and signed Franz Anthony Rotmauer in Legau is preserved in a German ancestral collection. £1800-2400 | Nil |
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| 384 | A POLISH BUTT RESERVOIR AIRGUN BY MARTIN SCHOLTZ A BRESLAU, CIRCA 1720 with three-stage swamped sighted barrel sleeved in brass, fitted with moulded brass apron back-sight, signed rounded dummy lock engraved with a figure from antiquity and the terminals chiselled with a grotesque issuant with foliage and a serpent respectively, chiselled cock decorated with a serpent top and bottom and fitted with a ring at the top, steel bridle engraved with a dragon, figured walnut full stock carved with conventional foliage about the barrel tang and over the fore-end, detachable butt, brass mounts including side-plate pierced and engraved with foliage terminating in a dragon head, trigger-guard with acanthus finial, three moulded ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, and original steel ramrod (the stock with minor cracks and repairs) 95.1cm; 37I in barrel Martin Scholtz is recorded in Breslau (now Warsaw) circa 1670-1700. This would appear to be an early use of the detachable butt reservoir system, or a working adaption to this system in the 18th century. £1800-2200 | Nil |
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| 385 | A GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN, CIRCA 1750 with two-stage barrel retained by a chiselled shaped brass band, fluted breech stamped with a mark, the letter A, beneath, plain tang, flat lock chiselled with a boar hunting scene and a mounted hunter taking aim at a mythical creature all on a punched ground within a framework of rococo scrolls, the lower portion of the cock concealed inside the lock, figured walnut half-stock carved with rococo scrolls behind the tang, raised cheek-piece decorated with further scrolls and shell ornament, engraved and chiselled brass mounts including side-plate decorated with a courtly scene within a framework of scrolls en suite with the lock, butt-plate decorated with further scrollwork frames and Diana the huntress on the tang, trigger-guard decorated with a halberdier, fore-end cap, a pair of faceted ramrod pipes, and crowned escutcheon decorated with an enthroned female figure (later ramrod) 96cm; 37N in barrel £1800-2200 | Nil |
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| 386 | A GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY IOHANN ROTER, CIRCA 1730 with Italian three-stage sighted barrel stamped 'Domenico Bonemino' over the breech and retained by an engraved shaped brass band, signed lock decorated with a stag hunting scene, figured walnut half-stock carved with rococo scrolls about the barrel tang and over the butt, engraved brass mounts including pierced side-plate decorated with scrolling foliage, trigger-guard with shaped finial decorated with scrollwork, butt-plate with tang of shaped outline decorated with an elaborate pattern of scrolls enclosing a reclining stag, and three moulded ramrod-pipes, a pair of steel sling swivels mounted on the side of the stock, and horn fore-end cap (later ramrod, the stock with areas of wear and light worm damage) 112.3cm; 44D in barrel This maker appears to be unrecorded. £1200-1800 | Nil |
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| 387 | A BAVARIAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY ANDREAS GANS IN AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1740 with blued two-stage sighted barrel, stamped with a series of decorative marks and the brass-lined barrelsmiths marks over the breech (including Neue Stockel 422), signed bevelled lock finely engraved with trophies-of-arms and a cherub playing a harp beneath the pan, the cock engraved with strapwork and chiselled with a serpent head beneath the jaws, figured walnut full stock carved in relief with rococo flowers and foliage behind the barrel tang, raised cheek-piece carved en suite, brass mounts of shaped outline, including two-piece side-plate and butt-plate, wooden trigger-guard reinforced with brass, and three brass ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod 87.7cm; 34I in barrel The second mark on the breech, that of the maker's name rendered in the Spanish style, is not recorded in Stockel. Two pairs of guns by this maker are preserved in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, inv.nrs.13/781,783,785 and 791. See E.Schalkhauser 1988, pp.122-123. £1500-1800 | Nil |
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| 388 | A GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN OF EXCEPTIONAL LENGTH, CIRCA 1740 with octagonal swamped barrel fitted with brass fore-sight, plain bevelled lock, figured walnut half-stock carved with rococo mouldings about the barrel tang, over the fore-end, the comb of the butt and the cheek-piece, brass mounts of shaped outline including two-piece side-plate, two-piece butt-plate, wooden trigger-guard reinforced with a brass band en suite, horn fore-end cap, and original bone-tipped wooden ramrod (the stock with light worm) 155cm; 61in barrel £1200-1800 | Nil |
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| 389 | A GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE BY ZIILY, CIRCA 1730 with blued two-stage signed sighted barrel rifled with twelve grooves, bevelled lock engraved with a mounted hunter attacking a bear beneath the pan and a further hunting scene on the tail, figured walnut full stock carved with rococo foliage and flowers in low relief about the barrel tang, raised cheek-piece carved with scrollwork and flowers behind, wooden trigger-guard reinforced with a plain brass plaque of shaped outline, and brass mounts including two-piece side-plate and two-piece butt-plate, horn fore-end cap, and original horn-tipped wooden ramrod (incomplete) 87.6cm; 34I in barrelThis gun was probably made by Joseph Zilly, recorded in Kirchheim, Wurttemberg circa 1701-45. £1000-1500 | Nil |
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| 390 | A GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN, CIRCA 1730 with two-stage swamped sighted barrel struck with the barrelsmith's mark, a sabre, engraved with a band of beadwork over the breech and retained by a pierced brass band, plain bevelled lock, the lower portion of the cock concealed within the lock and retained by a blued plate, figured walnut half-stock carved with rococo ornament in low relief, plain brass mounts of shaped outline including side-plate, trigger-guard with moulded bow, butt-plate, pierced vacant escutcheon and faceted brass ramrod-pipes (later ramrod, fore-end cap and one sling swivel missing, the stock with minor repairs) 105cm; 41F in barrel £1000-1500 | Nil |
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