BY DAVID RENE (SIC), OR REINHARDT, HEIDELBERG, CIRCA 1660
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An Unusual 28-Bore German Flintlock Sporting Carbine
By David Rene (sic), or Reinhardt, Heidelberg, circa 1660
With heavy swamped octagonal sighted barrel cut with eight grooves, signed behind the back-sight, and engraved with a band of acanthus foliage at the muzzle and breech, engraved tang, rounded lock engraved with a satyr and a monster, and signed on the tail (top jaw and screw replaced), the cock and steel each finely pierced and chiselled with scrolls, chiselled steel-spring, moulded figured walnut full stock (minor repairs) carved with foliage in relief behind the barrel tang, iron mounts including engraved flat side-plate and pierced trigger-guard with foliate finials, single turned ramrod-pipe, and original wooden ramrod with white staghorn tip
16in. (41.3cm.) barrel
By David Rene (sic), or Reinhardt, Heidelberg, circa 1660
With heavy swamped octagonal sighted barrel cut with eight grooves, signed behind the back-sight, and engraved with a band of acanthus foliage at the muzzle and breech, engraved tang, rounded lock engraved with a satyr and a monster, and signed on the tail (top jaw and screw replaced), the cock and steel each finely pierced and chiselled with scrolls, chiselled steel-spring, moulded figured walnut full stock (minor repairs) carved with foliage in relief behind the barrel tang, iron mounts including engraved flat side-plate and pierced trigger-guard with foliate finials, single turned ramrod-pipe, and original wooden ramrod with white staghorn tip
16in. (41.3cm.) barrel