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Lot 166

An Austrian 18-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Carl Pfeifer, Circa 1720, Probably Viennese

24 November 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£1,800 - £2,200

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An Austrian 18-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Carl Pfeifer, Circa 1720, Probably Viennese

With rebrowned two-stage twist octagonal barrel in the Turkish fashion, turned at the girdle and swamped towards the muzzle, the latter with foliate silver fore-sight, the long breech section inlaid with silver scrolls and engraved silver arabesques fore and aft, the latter (touch-hole bushed) with three applied silver bands and gold-lined barrelsmith's mark in Arabic characters on the top flat beyond, engraved tang, signed flat bevelled lock engraved with a stag hunting scene in a landscape, cock chiselled and engraved with foliated strapwork, finely figured full stock (fore-stock mostly replaced) carved with foliated strapwork in low relief, full brass mounts comprising side-plate cast, pierced and chased with a hound taking a hare within scrolling foliage, engraved crowned foliate engraved escutcheon, butt-plate engraved with a female portrait bust centred on cast and chased symmetrical foliage along the heel tang, spur trigger-guard decorated en suite, engraved turned and faceted ramrod-pipes (two replaced), horn fore-end cap, and associated horn-tipped ramrod
111.7 cm. barrel

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