Lot 345
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A GERMAN FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE and an incomplete percussion sporting rifle, originally forming a pair of flintlock fowling-pieces, the first with associated barrel and half-stock (reduced from full), the second with octagonal barrel signed 'A. Rosen in Dyck 1856' in gold, and with full stock (fore-end replaced), each gun with signed rounded lock chiselled in relief with a winged dragon and Venus in a chariot drawn by a lion, finely carved stock, and finely chiselled iron mounts, the butt-plates with a scene of the chase, the escutcheons finely pierced and chiselled with the full crowned arms of Manderscheidt with lion supporters, by Mathias Weins in Colen (sic), late 17th Century

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A GERMAN FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE and an incomplete percussion sporting rifle, originally forming a pair of flintlock fowling-pieces, the first with associated barrel and half-stock (reduced from full), the second with octagonal barrel signed 'A. Rosen in Dyck 1856' in gold, and with full stock (fore-end replaced), each gun with signed rounded lock chiselled in relief with a winged dragon and Venus in a chariot drawn by a lion, finely carved stock, and finely chiselled iron mounts, the butt-plates with a scene of the chase, the escutcheons finely pierced and chiselled with the full crowned arms of Manderscheidt with lion supporters, by Mathias Weins in Colen (sic), late 17th Century
32¾in. and 29½in. barrel [E.308, 446] (2)

Lot Essay

Matthias Weins is recorded in Cologne circa 1686 to his death before 1743, in the Untere Sporengasse. Almost all his entire oeuvre is in the Schloß Dyck armoury. As half the barrels on his firearms are by other makers, it has been suggested that he did not make barrels, his signature invariably appears on the lock-plate

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