Lot 112
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A RARE DUTCH D.B. FLINTLOCK WENDER FOWLING-PIECE with three-stage sighted barrels, one breech struck with town mark and maker's initials (Neue Støckel 3417, 574), the breech with old repair, flat engraved lock signed beneath the pan and with bevelled border, the tail chiselled as a monster's head in high relief, the cock finely engraved with a marine monster and retained internally, moulded full stock (the butt perhaps a working replacement), plain iron mounts, iron barrel release chiselled as a dolphin in the round, pierced turned brass ramrod-pipes, no tail-pipe, and iron-capped ramrod, by Jan Kitzen, Maastricht, circa 1650

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A RARE DUTCH D.B. FLINTLOCK WENDER FOWLING-PIECE with three-stage sighted barrels, one breech struck with town mark and maker's initials (Neue Støckel 3417, 574), the breech with old repair, flat engraved lock signed beneath the pan and with bevelled border, the tail chiselled as a monster's head in high relief, the cock finely engraved with a marine monster and retained internally, moulded full stock (the butt perhaps a working replacement), plain iron mounts, iron barrel release chiselled as a dolphin in the round, pierced turned brass ramrod-pipes, no tail-pipe, and iron-capped ramrod, by Jan Kitzen, Maastricht, circa 1650
45½in. barrels [E.406, S.26]

Lot Essay

Jan Kitzen, a native of Sittard, became a citizen of Maastricht and a member of the smith's guild in 1640. He was one of the principal Maastricht makers of the mid-17th Century, and is represented in the Wrangel armoury, Stokloster

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