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Lot 203

An Austrian 25-Bore Wheel-Lock Sporting Rifle (Müller-Büchse)
Signed Balthasar Zellner, Probably Johann Balthasar Of Salzburg, Third Quarter Of The 17th Century

30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An Austrian 25-Bore Wheel-Lock Sporting Rifle (Müller-Büchse)
Signed Balthasar Zellner, Probably Johann Balthasar Of Salzburg, Third Quarter Of The 17th Century

With octagonal sighted barrel slightly swamped at the muzzle and rifled with seven grooves, breech cut with a line of beadwork and signed on the top flat beyond, ovoidal brass-lined maker's mark between (Neue Støckel 8595), tang engraved 'F', rounded lock retained by three side-nails and with enclosed wheel, finely chiselled cock, cock-spring and sliding pan-cover, the latter with release button, moulded figured full stock (fore-end partly replaced, some bruising and minor repairs) carved with a shell in front of the trigger-guard finial, and with foliage behind the barrel tang and on the cheek-piece, carved sliding patch-box cover, steel mounts including serpentine side-plate and curved trigger-guard, turned baluster ramrod-pipe, set trigger, horn fore-end cap, sling mounts, and later horn-tipped ramrod
83.6 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Provenance
Auktionshaus Peter Ineichen, Zürich, 6 May 1980, lot 582 (illustrated)
Dr. Han Georg Plaut Collection (P. 765), sold in these Rooms, 1 April 2004, lot 274

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