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Lot 346*
A Continental 13-Bore Flintlock Sporting RifleMid-18th Century, Probably German Or Austrian
27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £840 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Continental 13-Bore Flintlock Sporting Rifle
Mid-18th Century, Probably German Or Austrian
Mid-18th Century, Probably German Or Austrian
With long octagonal sighted barrel rifled with twenty-eight grooves, blued back-sight with flat foliate finial, plain tang, border engraved flat bevelled lock and cock (top jaw and screw replaced, steel refaced), the former retained by two wing-headed screws, figured full stock with incised line border decoration and carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, butt (split along each side) with cheekpiece and flat along the bottom, foliate engraved brass mounts comprising pierced foliate side-plate, shaped vacant escutcheon, butt-plate and spur trigger-guard, sling loops, faceted brass ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, and original horn-tipped ramrod
116.8 cm. barrel
116.8 cm. barrel








