19TH CENTURY
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A Decorative Wheel-Lock Gun, And A Decorative Wheel-Lock Pistol
19th Century
The first with tapering sighted octagonal barrel inlaid with silver scrolls and ovals, engraved and chiselled lock, full stock inlaid with white staghorn carved in relief with scrolls, foliage, masks, a monster-head, a huntsman, a mounted knight, two knights in combat, and on the cheek-piece with a large standing knight with jousting-lance and shield under a canopy, sliding patch-box cover en suite with the stock, and horn-tipped ramrod; the second with two-stage barrel, engraved flat lock, full stock inlaid with staghorn roundels, ivory ball butt carved in relief with foliage, iron trigger-guard, and horn-tipped ramrod
The first with 28.1/8in. (71.5cm.) barrel (2)
19th Century
The first with tapering sighted octagonal barrel inlaid with silver scrolls and ovals, engraved and chiselled lock, full stock inlaid with white staghorn carved in relief with scrolls, foliage, masks, a monster-head, a huntsman, a mounted knight, two knights in combat, and on the cheek-piece with a large standing knight with jousting-lance and shield under a canopy, sliding patch-box cover en suite with the stock, and horn-tipped ramrod; the second with two-stage barrel, engraved flat lock, full stock inlaid with staghorn roundels, ivory ball butt carved in relief with foliage, iron trigger-guard, and horn-tipped ramrod
The first with 28.1/8in. (71.5cm.) barrel (2)