With two-stage barrel retaining virtually all its blued finish and with baluster moulding at the muzzle, turned girdle chiselled with acanthus, octagonal breech becoming polygonal, signed in gold between gold-inlaid foliage and struck with two gold-lined punzónes of the maker (Neue Støckel 743, 744), gold-lined touch-hole, bright border engraved tang decorated with a scallop shell and foliage against a finely punched ground, bright border engraved flat lock with moulded border, signed and decorated with a seated sportsman and his gun-dog in a landscape beneath the faceted pan, and with a trophy of arms on the tail, the decoration against finely punched grounds, bright cock and steel en suite with the tang, the former partly on a punched and gilt ground, the head of the retaining screw en suite, highly figured rootwood full stock (fore-end with two minor splits) with moulded borders and carved with foliage behind the rear ramrod-pipe and barrel tang, bright steel mounts comprising side-plate pierced and chiselled with foliate strapwork inhabited by sea-monsters and incorporating a vacant escutcheon, border engraved spurred pommel decorated on both sides with a putti seated amid a martial trophy, and ovoidal butt-cap chiselled with foliage against a finely punched ground within a border of engraved foliage, faceted trigger-guard with chiselled finial involving a mustachioed grotesque mask and decorated with foliage on the border engraved bow, turned rear ramrod-pipe engraved with a flower-head, blued slotted steel barrel band also forming the forward ramrod-pipe, wooden ramrod with turned horn tip, and in fine condition retaining nearly all its original finish
30 cm. barrel