A GERMAN D.B. FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE with rebrowned earlier three-stage barrels retaining traces of gold-lined counterfeit marks of G. Fernandez on each breech, plain rounded locks signed below the steel-springs, moulded figured walnut half-stock with simulated butt-plate and rear ramrod-pipe, carved with swags and bows in relief and an S in relief behind the barrel tang, and wooden trigger-guard and ramrod (sling swivels missing), by Pierre Greverath of Schloss Dyck, late 18th Century

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A GERMAN D.B. FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE with rebrowned earlier three-stage barrels retaining traces of gold-lined counterfeit marks of G. Fernandez on each breech, plain rounded locks signed below the steel-springs, moulded figured walnut half-stock with simulated butt-plate and rear ramrod-pipe, carved with swags and bows in relief and an S in relief behind the barrel tang, and wooden trigger-guard and ramrod (sling swivels missing), by Pierre Greverath of Schloss Dyck, late 18th Century
38½in. barrels [E.416, S.27]

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Made for Altgraf Josef (1773-1861)

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