CIRCA 1650
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A 120-Bore Silesian Wheel-Lock Tschinke
Circa 1650
With swamped octagonal sighted barrel cut with six grooves and retaining some punched decoration at the muzzle and numbered '1' on the tang, characteristic lock with external mechanism, the fences and wheel-bracket with punched decoration, engraved cock and pan-cover, full stock profusely inlaid with horn animals, monsters, a bird, a squirrel, scrolls and pellets enriched with mother-of-pearl, indented iron trigger-guard, and original horn-tipped ramrod (horn ramrod-entry replaced)
35in. (88.9cm.) barrel
Circa 1650
With swamped octagonal sighted barrel cut with six grooves and retaining some punched decoration at the muzzle and numbered '1' on the tang, characteristic lock with external mechanism, the fences and wheel-bracket with punched decoration, engraved cock and pan-cover, full stock profusely inlaid with horn animals, monsters, a bird, a squirrel, scrolls and pellets enriched with mother-of-pearl, indented iron trigger-guard, and original horn-tipped ramrod (horn ramrod-entry replaced)
35in. (88.9cm.) barrel