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Lot 282

A Rare 25-Bore Liège D.B. Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Philippe de Selier (Desellier), Circa 1720

29 April 2010, 11:00 BST

London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £7,800 inc. premium

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A Rare 25-Bore Liège D.B. Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Philippe de Selier (Desellier), Circa 1720

With swamped barrels without ribs, secured by a pierced and engraved iron barrel band and each retaining most of its original lustrous blued finish, engraved silvered brass fore-sights, signed breech sections each stamped thrice with the maker's brass-lined mark (Neue Støckel 4372), swelling tangs engraved with acanthus foliage, signed faceted border engraved locks decorated with foliage and each with stepped tail, faceted cock-jaws, jaw screw, cock retaining screw, pan and steel, the last with spur of triangular section, the screws (two replaced), top jaws and steel-springs all retaining their original blued finish, moulded figured walnut half-stock (minor bruises) carved in relief with acanthus foliage behind the barrel tangs, engraved iron mounts, faceted trigger-guard decorated with scrollwork on a raised panel on the bow, butt-plate (small patches of surface pitting) with long shaped tang, vacant escutcheon with coronet above, turned and faceted ramrod-pipes, and original iron-capped ramrod, the butt-plate engraved 'No 20', in original little-used condition throughout
107.3 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Provenance:
Dr. and Mrs. Jerome Zwanger, Sotheby & Co., New York, European Works of Art, Tapestries and Furniture, 17 October 2000, part of lot 228
Henk L. Visser Collection, sold in these Rooms, 28 November 2007, lot 315

Literature:
G. de Vries and B.J. Martens, The Visser Collection, vol. I, part 4, 2007, cat. no. 920, pp. 542-543
Bill Harriman, 'Double Or Nothing', Shooting Times & Country Magazine, 3 January 2008, p. 21

This is an example of the early type of side-by-side double sporting gun. The ones constructed with separate barrels are called 'fusils à bande', and nearly all of them are of French manufacture

Cf. the garniture of three-shot pistols and gun by the same maker formerly in the Armoury of their Serene Highnesses the Princes zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck, sold at Christie's, King Street, 15 April 1992, lot 255

For more information on the maker (recorded from c. 1680 to 1740), see J.P. Puype, The Visser Collection, vol. 1, part 1, 1996, cat. no. 85, pp. 244-245 and vol. 1, part 2, 1996, cat nos. 358 and 376, pp. 306-309, and 356-357

See also lot 117

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