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A Fine Russian (Tula) 25-Bore Barrel From A Flintlock Sporting RifleReign Of Empress Elizabeth (1741-1762), Mid-18th Century
27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £7,440 inc. premium
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Reign Of Empress Elizabeth (1741-1762), Mid-18th Century
Reign Of Empress Elizabeth (1741-1762), Mid-18th Century
Of octagonal section slightly swamped towards the muzzle and rifled with eight grooves, the three top flats decorated overall against a finely stippled gold ground with symmetrical designs of intertwined foliage chiselled in low relief and inhabited by birds, animals including hunting hounds and a unicorn, figures including a harpy, and two trophies of arms, towards the centre the monogram of Empress Elizabeth, a crown above with lion supporters, gold-lined touch-hole, chiselled front sight and folding-leaf back-sight, and tang chiselled with foliage against a finely stippled gold ground
73.5 cm. barrel
73.5 cm. barrel
Footnotes
For a very similar barrel on a flintlock rifle, formerly in the collection of Grand Duke Michail Nikolaevich and distinguished by having mounts made of ebony and painted wood, preserved in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (Inv. No. 2. 0. 67) see Valentin Mavrodin, Fine Arms from Tula, 1977, nos. 50-52; and Dr. Jurij A. Miller, Masterpieces of Russian Hunting Arms from the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 1996, pp. 42-43, figs. 18, 18a-c








