ANOTHER, the barrel cut with alternating single and triple grooves and struck with Strasburg mark on the breech, rounded lock chiselled with scrolls in relief on the tail and with signed integral wheel-cover set with applied pierced silver double-headed eagle, the cock in the form of a winged dragon, carved figured full stock, iron mounts, horn fore-end cap and horn-tipped wooden ramrod, by Johan Cretze à Goslar, late 17th Century

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ANOTHER, the barrel cut with alternating single and triple grooves and struck with Strasburg mark on the breech, rounded lock chiselled with scrolls in relief on the tail and with signed integral wheel-cover set with applied pierced silver double-headed eagle, the cock in the form of a winged dragon, carved figured full stock, iron mounts, horn fore-end cap and horn-tipped wooden ramrod, by Johan Cretze à Goslar, late 17th Century
30¼in. barrel [E.214, S.23]
Literature
A. Hoff,'Die Waffensammlung in Schloß Dyck', p.132

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