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THE BARREL DATED 1709
Details
A .57 GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE
The barrel dated 1709
With swamped octagonal sighted barrel cut with seven grooves and retaining traces of a Munich maker's signature (perhaps Georg Draussmiller) together with the date, plain tang numbered '1', flat lock engraved with scrollwork, raised wheel-cover engraved with foliage, flat cock with a monster-head, full stock with fluted fore-end and profusely inlaid with white staghorn panels engraved with flowers, foliage, animals, figures, and scenes of the chase, heightened on the butt with tendrils and pellets, horn-inlaid sliding patch-box cover with two profile portrait busts, iron butt-plate engraved with a sportsman and his dog, indented iron trigger-guard, set trigger, and later horn-tipped ramrod (some surface pitting)
34 3/8in. barrel
The barrel dated 1709
With swamped octagonal sighted barrel cut with seven grooves and retaining traces of a Munich maker's signature (perhaps Georg Draussmiller) together with the date, plain tang numbered '1', flat lock engraved with scrollwork, raised wheel-cover engraved with foliage, flat cock with a monster-head, full stock with fluted fore-end and profusely inlaid with white staghorn panels engraved with flowers, foliage, animals, figures, and scenes of the chase, heightened on the butt with tendrils and pellets, horn-inlaid sliding patch-box cover with two profile portrait busts, iron butt-plate engraved with a sportsman and his dog, indented iron trigger-guard, set trigger, and later horn-tipped ramrod (some surface pitting)
34 3/8in. barrel
Provenance
Frank E. Bivens, Jr.
Literature
F. Theodore Dexter, Half-Century Scrapbook of Vari-Type Firearms, no. 679, p. 30, plate 10