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Lot 170

A Rare Bohemian 20-Bore Flintlock Break-Action Breech-Loading Sporting Gun
By Joann Georg Polz A Carlsbad, Circa 1730

24 November 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Bohemian 20-Bore Flintlock Break-Action Breech-Loading Sporting Gun
By Joann Georg Polz A Carlsbad, Circa 1730

With tapering vertically hinged sighted barrel signed along the raised part of the sighting flat, breech engraved with foliage surmounted by an armoured figure holding a lance against a stand of martial arms, all within a wrigglework border, and fitted with a reloadable iron cartridge equipped with a faceted pan, foliate engraved steel and chiselled steel-spring, all on a border engraved plate decorated with foliage, bright border engraved tang and tang-plates, the former decorated with a demi-figure grasping foliage, the latter each with foliage terminating in a marine-monster, bevelled cock chiselled and engraved en suite and including flush-fitting retaining screw, back-action flat lock with rounded border and engraved with a wildfowling scene in a landscape, moulded highly figured rootwood full stock and butt (the former replaced), the latter with raised apron around the barrel tang, iron mounts comprising side-plate pierced and chiselled as a marine-monster with foliate tail, butt-plate decorated with a figure en suite with the breech and with chiselled foliate finial, trigger-guard incorporating the sprung barrel-release catch and decorated with a moustachioed grotesque mask on the border engraved bow, scrolled trigger, later baluster ramrod-pipes, and later iron-tipped ramrod
99.7 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Johann Georg Poltz is recorded in Carlsbad in around 1729

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