A GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE with earlier sighted barrel (adapted, back-sight missing) rifled with eight grooves and struck at the breech with the mark of Max Wenger of Prague and Vienna (Neue Støckel 1141) and the letter K, rounded lock (mainspring incomplete, trigger mechanism missing), walnut full stock (wormed) inlaid with staghorn plaques variously engraved with foliage, hounds and a grotesque, the butt (repaired) with cheek-piece similarly inlaid with a dragon and a further panel, staghorn patch-box cover crudely engraved with a fox pursued by a hound, iron mounts including butt-plate, spurred trigger-guard with turned finial, turned ramrod-pipes, and later iron fore-end cap, and wooden ramrod, late 17th Century, the barrel early 17th Century | Christie's

Lot 67

A GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE with earlier sighted barrel (adapted, back-sight missing) rifled with eight grooves and struck at the breech with the mark of Max Wenger of Prague and Vienna (Neue Støckel 1141) and the letter K, rounded lock (mainspring incomplete, trigger mechanism missing), walnut full stock (wormed) inlaid with staghorn plaques variously engraved with foliage, hounds and a grotesque, the butt (repaired) with cheek-piece similarly inlaid with a dragon and a further panel, staghorn patch-box cover crudely engraved with a fox pursued by a hound, iron mounts including butt-plate, spurred trigger-guard with turned finial, turned ramrod-pipes, and later iron fore-end cap, and wooden ramrod, late 17th Century, the barrel early 17th Century

Details

A GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE with earlier sighted barrel (adapted, back-sight missing) rifled with eight grooves and struck at the breech with the mark of Max Wenger of Prague and Vienna (Neue Støckel 1141) and the letter K, rounded lock (mainspring incomplete, trigger mechanism missing), walnut full stock (wormed) inlaid with staghorn plaques variously engraved with foliage, hounds and a grotesque, the butt (repaired) with cheek-piece similarly inlaid with a dragon and a further panel, staghorn patch-box cover crudely engraved with a fox pursued by a hound, iron mounts including butt-plate, spurred trigger-guard with turned finial, turned ramrod-pipes, and later iron fore-end cap, and wooden ramrod, late 17th Century, the barrel early 17th Century
36¾in. barrel [E.288, S.14]

Lot Essay

This and the following four lots were assembled and stocked in the late 17th Century, probably at Schloss Dyck, incorporating barrels and stock-inlays from earlier wheel-locks

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