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Lot 445

A German 25-Bore Wheel-Lock Sporting Rifle
17th Century And Later

29 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A German 25-Bore Wheel-Lock Sporting Rifle
17th Century And Later

With octagonal sighted barrel rifled with sixteen grooves, breech (touch-hole bushed) stamped with barrelsmith's initials 'H F' (similar to Neue Støckel 2832) either side of the sighting groove, folding leaf back-sight, grooved tang, flat bevelled lock engraved at a later date with a horseman amid scrolling foliage and stamped with the Nuremberg mark and a star-shaped maker's mark (similar to Neue Støckel 5910), annular wheel-retaining bracket and sliding pan-cover (release button missing), lightly figured full stock inlaid at a later date along both sides of the fore-stock with engraved white horn or bone hounds pursuing hares in a landscape (worn), the butt with figures and animals (some replacements and repairs), the cheek-piece with a large panel engraved with a battle scene involving armoured figures on horseback, all the inlays against a ground of brass wire scrollwork and white horn or bone dots, sliding patch-box cover en suite, iron trigger-guard engraved with foliage en suite with the lock, set trigger, later fore-end cap, and later ramrod (steel parts rust patinated)
83.4 cm. barrel

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