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Lot 3377ANTIQUE

A German wheelock sporting rifle
dated 1669
-Select US Arms Type-

10 June 2013, 10:00 PDT
San Francisco

Sold for US$8,190 inc. premium

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A German wheelock sporting rifle
dated 1669

The 31 inch sighted octagonal barrel with seven-groove rifling in .58 caliber; breech signed J.T. Ried; short tang secured from beneath. Undecorated lockplate with enclosed wheel, the cock engraved with monster heads. Full stock, the fore-end with bone banding and ramrod thimbles, the side panels profusely inlaid with bone roundels and scrollwork and the figures of three dolphins; buttstock of familiar form and inlaid as the fore-end, the underside with a mask of the devil, the sides with monsters; cheekpiece with replaced oval bone panel incised with a stag, below this a panel inscribed HS/1669; top and butt with replaced panels carved with scrollwork and hounds; bone patchbox cover incised with a stag and hound and is a replacement. Bone-tipped ramrod.
Condition: Very good. Grey metal showing minor pitting/spotting. Stock with restoration as noted above, the front ramrod thimble detached.
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