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Lot 458

A Silesian 50-Bore Wheel-Lock Sporting Rifle
Second Half Of The 17th Century

29 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Silesian 50-Bore Wheel-Lock Sporting Rifle
Second Half Of The 17th Century

With blued swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves, bright tang, plain flat lock with annular wheel-retaining bracket and sprung sliding pan-cover with release button, pierced cock retaining traces of engraved decoration, the bracket over the cock and cock-spring pierced with a heart, figured full stock profusely inlaid in the Teschen manner with horn pellets, engraved ball-flowers and scrolls enriched with larger mother-of-pearl flower-heads and ball-flowers (minor losses), and with engraved white horn or bone panels comprising hounds pursuing stags, foxes and hares, monsters, a horse, figures including a naked child grasping animals, and a squirrel, cheek-piece (some loss of decoration on the heel of the butt, horn butt-plate missing) with central mother-of pearl oval framed by pairs of profile heads, winged dragons and cherubs, and with a pair of mother-of-pearl hares, all within white horn or bone lines, sliding patch-box cover inlaid en suite and involving a lion hunting scene, iron trigger-guard indented for the fingers, engraved forward ramrod-pipe (rear one replaced) and fore-end cap, and later wooden ramrod
69.5 cm. barrel

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