INSCRIBED CAPRICE DE FROUMONT, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY
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A Very Rare 22-Bore Two-Shot Breech-Loading Flintlock Sporting Gun
Inscribed Caprice de Froumont, third quarter of the 17th Century
With detachable three-stage sighted barrel with revolving chambers finely engraved with flowers and foliage and released by a spring catch to the rear of the cock, signed external action with chiselled details on the cock and springs, figured fruitwood butt inlaid with small silver plaques and silver wire scrolls and pellets, and engraved iron trigger-guard, side-plate, and butt-plate, in renovated condition throughout
31in. (78.8cm.) barrel
The maker Froumont appears to be unrecorded, although a Charles Froment of Erlangen (a Bavarian town founded in 1686 for French Protestants migrs following the revocation of the edict of Nantes) is listed in Der Neue Stckel from 1657 to his death in 1722
Cf. a flintlock repeating gun inscribed on the butt 'Caprice De Cesar Froumont Pour Monter A L'Assaut' in the Robert-Jean Charles collection, sold at Ader Tajan, Paris, 13 May 1993, Lot 173
A four-shot pistol with a similar action was sold at Christie's, 21 October 1987, Lot 218 (illustrated in Claude Blair, Pistols of the World, plates 708-9)
Inscribed Caprice de Froumont, third quarter of the 17th Century
With detachable three-stage sighted barrel with revolving chambers finely engraved with flowers and foliage and released by a spring catch to the rear of the cock, signed external action with chiselled details on the cock and springs, figured fruitwood butt inlaid with small silver plaques and silver wire scrolls and pellets, and engraved iron trigger-guard, side-plate, and butt-plate, in renovated condition throughout
31in. (78.8cm.) barrel
The maker Froumont appears to be unrecorded, although a Charles Froment of Erlangen (a Bavarian town founded in 1686 for French Protestants migrs following the revocation of the edict of Nantes) is listed in Der Neue Stckel from 1657 to his death in 1722
Cf. a flintlock repeating gun inscribed on the butt 'Caprice De Cesar Froumont Pour Monter A L'Assaut' in the Robert-Jean Charles collection, sold at Ader Tajan, Paris, 13 May 1993, Lot 173
A four-shot pistol with a similar action was sold at Christie's, 21 October 1987, Lot 218 (illustrated in Claude Blair, Pistols of the World, plates 708-9)