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CIRCA 1590
Details
An unusual Saxon 32-bore left-hand combined wheel-lock and matchlock rifle
circa 1590
With three-stage swamped octagonal sighted barrel cut with seven grooves, plain tang with later back-sight, plain lock with domed wheel-cover, safety-catch and pan-cover release button, full stock stamped over almost all its surface in imitation of staghorn and inlaid with staghorn panels engraved with marine monsters and foliage, at the barrel tang with scrolls and profile heads, and at the rear of the ramrod-channel with an urn, plain cheek-piece with fleur-de-lys terminal, border engraved horn butt-plate, later horn-inlaid patch-box cover, indented iron trigger-guard, engraved staghorn forward ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap, and later ramrod (set trigger mechanism removed, matchlock mechanism and safety-catch replaced)
37in. (94cm.) barrel
circa 1590
With three-stage swamped octagonal sighted barrel cut with seven grooves, plain tang with later back-sight, plain lock with domed wheel-cover, safety-catch and pan-cover release button, full stock stamped over almost all its surface in imitation of staghorn and inlaid with staghorn panels engraved with marine monsters and foliage, at the barrel tang with scrolls and profile heads, and at the rear of the ramrod-channel with an urn, plain cheek-piece with fleur-de-lys terminal, border engraved horn butt-plate, later horn-inlaid patch-box cover, indented iron trigger-guard, engraved staghorn forward ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap, and later ramrod (set trigger mechanism removed, matchlock mechanism and safety-catch replaced)
37in. (94cm.) barrel
Provenance
The Saxon Royal Armouries, Sotheby & Co., London, 23 March 1970, lot 14