BY JOHANN JAKOB KUCHENREUTER, STEINWEG NEAR REGENSBURG, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY
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A 38-Bore German Flintlock Pistol
By Johann Jakob Kuchenreuter, Steinweg near Regensburg, third quarter of the 18th Century
Reconverted from percussion, with sighted barrel retaining traces of blued finish, with sighting flat signed in silver and bearing the silver spider fore-sight, the breech inlaid with strapwork and the number '.I.' in silver and with three gold-lined maker's stamps (Neue Stckel 7719, 654), shaped tang incorporating the back-sight, rounded lock chiselled in relief with a stag and a hind in a wooded landscape, carved moulded figured walnut full stock, full brass mounts retaining some original gilt finish and finely cast and chased in relief with rococo decoration on a punched ground, including trigger-guard with a lady in contemporary sporting attire holding a gun and standing beside a recumbent stag, spurred pommel with further rococo decoration, octagonal ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, and later horn-tipped ramrod (tang of trigger-guard with old repair)
15in. (40cm.)
By Johann Jakob Kuchenreuter, Steinweg near Regensburg, third quarter of the 18th Century
Reconverted from percussion, with sighted barrel retaining traces of blued finish, with sighting flat signed in silver and bearing the silver spider fore-sight, the breech inlaid with strapwork and the number '.I.' in silver and with three gold-lined maker's stamps (Neue Stckel 7719, 654), shaped tang incorporating the back-sight, rounded lock chiselled in relief with a stag and a hind in a wooded landscape, carved moulded figured walnut full stock, full brass mounts retaining some original gilt finish and finely cast and chased in relief with rococo decoration on a punched ground, including trigger-guard with a lady in contemporary sporting attire holding a gun and standing beside a recumbent stag, spurred pommel with further rococo decoration, octagonal ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, and later horn-tipped ramrod (tang of trigger-guard with old repair)
15in. (40cm.)