A BOHEMIAN PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLE with etched twist octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves and with engraved leaf back-sight, signed in gold and with gold line and interlaced strapwork, scroll engraved breech with platinum plug, long shaped tang finely engraved en suite and with a seated sportsman smoking a pipe, and inset with a gold escutcheon engraved with a coronet and the initials JB, signed shaped lock finely engraved with flowers and foliage, and a boar beset by a greyhound, figured walnut half-stock carved with scrolling foliage in relief on the grip, plain cheek-piece, finely engraved iron mounts of shaped outline decorated with flowers, foliage and strapwork enclosing chamois and deer, the patch-box carved with a boar in pursuit of a sportsman and his dog and signed with the engraver's initials FC, horn fore-end cap, pierced spurred horn tang to the trigger-guard, set trigger, iron sling mounts, and original brass-mounted ramrod, the finial screwed into the underside of the butt (rear ramrod-pipe loose), by C. Werlik in Teschen, circa 1860 25in. barrel

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A BOHEMIAN PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLE with etched twist octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves and with engraved leaf back-sight, signed in gold and with gold line and interlaced strapwork, scroll engraved breech with platinum plug, long shaped tang finely engraved en suite and with a seated sportsman smoking a pipe, and inset with a gold escutcheon engraved with a coronet and the initials JB, signed shaped lock finely engraved with flowers and foliage, and a boar beset by a greyhound, figured walnut half-stock carved with scrolling foliage in relief on the grip, plain cheek-piece, finely engraved iron mounts of shaped outline decorated with flowers, foliage and strapwork enclosing chamois and deer, the patch-box carved with a boar in pursuit of a sportsman and his dog and signed with the engraver's initials FC, horn fore-end cap, pierced spurred horn tang to the trigger-guard, set trigger, iron sling mounts, and original brass-mounted ramrod, the finial screwed into the underside of the butt (rear ramrod-pipe loose), by C. Werlik in Teschen, circa 1860
25in. barrel

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