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BY WENTZL SIMME IN STEYR, CIRCA 1720-30
Details
A FINE .65 AUSTRIAN FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE
By Wentzl Simme in Steyr, circa 1720-30
With three-stage barrel retaining faint traces of original blue, signed in silver on the top of the breech, and inlaid with silver lines and scrolls, silver fore-sight, brass-lined touch-hole, engraved tang with gilt-brass apron, flat lock engraved with Diana and Cupid and two putti and a stag, and with rounded tail (top jaw associated), finely figured walnut half-stock (fore-end tip cracked and repaired), engraved gilt-brass mounts cast and chased in relief with scrollwork on a punched ground enclosing stags, a sportsman, and a musician, the side-plate with a mounted sportsman and his hounds in pursuit of a hare, the toe of the butt with a standing sportsman with his dog and gun, vacant escutcheon, engraved barrel band, faceted ramrod-pipes (forward pipe an old replacement), and later ramrod
42¼in. barrel
By Wentzl Simme in Steyr, circa 1720-30
With three-stage barrel retaining faint traces of original blue, signed in silver on the top of the breech, and inlaid with silver lines and scrolls, silver fore-sight, brass-lined touch-hole, engraved tang with gilt-brass apron, flat lock engraved with Diana and Cupid and two putti and a stag, and with rounded tail (top jaw associated), finely figured walnut half-stock (fore-end tip cracked and repaired), engraved gilt-brass mounts cast and chased in relief with scrollwork on a punched ground enclosing stags, a sportsman, and a musician, the side-plate with a mounted sportsman and his hounds in pursuit of a hare, the toe of the butt with a standing sportsman with his dog and gun, vacant escutcheon, engraved barrel band, faceted ramrod-pipes (forward pipe an old replacement), and later ramrod
42¼in. barrel
Provenance
Charles Marchal, Paris