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A Fine Cased Pair Of German 40-Bore Percussion Target PistolsBy Johann Adam Kuchenreuter In Regensburg, Circa 1850
25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge£8,500 - £9,500
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By Johann Adam Kuchenreuter In Regensburg, Circa 1850
By Johann Adam Kuchenreuter In Regensburg, Circa 1850
With etched twist octagonal sighted rifled barrels each signed in full in silver gothic script along the top flat, and with silver-lined oval maker's mark between silver foliated scrollwork at the breech, engraved ramped fore-sights, the breeches numbered '1' and '2' respectively, engraved with foliage and incorporating an adjustable back-sight, shaped locks, hammers and mounts all engraved with stylised scrolling foliage and retaining most of their original dull grey finish, the last comprising shaped side-plates, oval pommel-caps and spur trigger-guards, highly figured half-stocks carved with foliage in relief around the barrel tangs and on each side of the butts, the latter with shaped chequered panels, ovoidal pommels, set triggers, original horn-tipped ramrods, and in fine condition: in original rosewood-veneered case fitted and lined in plum velvet with full accessories including embossed powder-flask, and white-metal mounted turnscrew and nipple-key, complete with its green baize-lined leather travelling cover (straps incomplete) with handwritten owner's name on the outside 'Baron Fr. Nolde'
25.4 cm. barrels
25.4 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Johann Adam Kuchenreuter, recorded 1794 to the year of his death in 1869, was court gunmaker to the Princes of Thurn and Taxis








