AN ALSATIAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE with sighted octagonal barrel rifled with nine grooves and struck at the breech with the mark of Thomas Bader (Støckel 19) and the Strasburg mark (Støckel 1633), signed rounded lock engraved with foliage and struck in front of the pan with the Strasburg mark, walnut full stock carved behind the barrel tang and on the cheek-piece with scrollwork, flowers and foliage, the latter (repaired) inlaid with a shaped staghorn plaque engraved with a stag beset by hounds, staghorn patch-box cover engraved with scrollwork and a sportsman firing his flintlock rifle at a boar from behind trees, iron mounts including trigger-guard with turned finial, rounded scrolled side-plate, and butt-plate with long tang engraved with a rosette, later set trigger, engraved horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod, by Thomas Bader A Strasbourg, late 17th Century 28¾in. barrel [E.265, S.19] | Christie's

Lot 72

AN ALSATIAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE with sighted octagonal barrel rifled with nine grooves and struck at the breech with the mark of Thomas Bader (Støckel 19) and the Strasburg mark (Støckel 1633), signed rounded lock engraved with foliage and struck in front of the pan with the Strasburg mark, walnut full stock carved behind the barrel tang and on the cheek-piece with scrollwork, flowers and foliage, the latter (repaired) inlaid with a shaped staghorn plaque engraved with a stag beset by hounds, staghorn patch-box cover engraved with scrollwork and a sportsman firing his flintlock rifle at a boar from behind trees, iron mounts including trigger-guard with turned finial, rounded scrolled side-plate, and butt-plate with long tang engraved with a rosette, later set trigger, engraved horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod, by Thomas Bader A Strasbourg, late 17th Century 28¾in. barrel [E.265, S.19]

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AN ALSATIAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE with sighted octagonal barrel rifled with nine grooves and struck at the breech with the mark of Thomas Bader (Støckel 19) and the Strasburg mark (Støckel 1633), signed rounded lock engraved with foliage and struck in front of the pan with the Strasburg mark, walnut full stock carved behind the barrel tang and on the cheek-piece with scrollwork, flowers and foliage, the latter (repaired) inlaid with a shaped staghorn plaque engraved with a stag beset by hounds, staghorn patch-box cover engraved with scrollwork and a sportsman firing his flintlock rifle at a boar from behind trees, iron mounts including trigger-guard with turned finial, rounded scrolled side-plate, and butt-plate with long tang engraved with a rosette, later set trigger, engraved horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod, by Thomas Bader A Strasbourg, late 17th Century 28¾in. barrel [E.265, S.19]

Lot Essay

Thomas Bader of Strasburg became an independent Master in 1675 and died in 1692

This and the following two lots were presumably ordered at the same time in Strasburg

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