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BY JOHANN CHRISTOPH KUCHENREUTER, REGENSBURG, CIRCA 1790
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A PAIR OF GERMAN SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK RIFLED OFFICER'S PISTOLS
BY JOHANN CHRISTOPH KUCHENREUTER, REGENSBURG, CIRCA 1790
With octagonal sighted barrels each with shallow scratch rifling, silver inlaid signature and scrollwork, gold lined maker's stamp (Der Neue Støckel 640) and retaining traces of original blued finish, gold lined touch holes, tangs respectively numbered '1' and '2', and each incorporating a three leaf rear-sight, signed locks each with safety-catch and white metal lined priming pan (one cock repaired, the other replaced), figured walnut full stocks each carved in high relief with a spray of flowering foliage behind the barrel tang, the butts each with chequered band and fitted with engraved iron-bound aperture for an attachable shoulder-stock (one cracked and repaired), shaped plain silver mounts, and silver capped ramrods, one with whale bone haft
15 ¾ in. (40 cm.) overall
BY JOHANN CHRISTOPH KUCHENREUTER, REGENSBURG, CIRCA 1790
With octagonal sighted barrels each with shallow scratch rifling, silver inlaid signature and scrollwork, gold lined maker's stamp (Der Neue Støckel 640) and retaining traces of original blued finish, gold lined touch holes, tangs respectively numbered '1' and '2', and each incorporating a three leaf rear-sight, signed locks each with safety-catch and white metal lined priming pan (one cock repaired, the other replaced), figured walnut full stocks each carved in high relief with a spray of flowering foliage behind the barrel tang, the butts each with chequered band and fitted with engraved iron-bound aperture for an attachable shoulder-stock (one cracked and repaired), shaped plain silver mounts, and silver capped ramrods, one with whale bone haft
15 ¾ in. (40 cm.) overall
Special notice
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