THIRD QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY
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An Unusual 120-Bore German Wheel-Lock Sporting Carbine For A Boy
Third quarter of the 17th Century
With swamped octagonal sighted barrel (back-sight missing, muzzle pitted) cut with six grooves and incised with the spurious date 1568, flat lock engraved with foliage and berries, shaped wheel-bracket engraved with profile heads, flush-fitting cock with engraved and chiselled decoration, and hand-operated pan-cover, birch-wood full stock (some worming) inlaid with engraved dark horn panels including a running stag on the cheek-piece, horn-inlaid patch-box cover, iron trigger-guard, engraved dark horn fore-end cap and ramrod-pipes, and later horn-tipped ramrod
19in. (48.2cm.) barrel
Third quarter of the 17th Century
With swamped octagonal sighted barrel (back-sight missing, muzzle pitted) cut with six grooves and incised with the spurious date 1568, flat lock engraved with foliage and berries, shaped wheel-bracket engraved with profile heads, flush-fitting cock with engraved and chiselled decoration, and hand-operated pan-cover, birch-wood full stock (some worming) inlaid with engraved dark horn panels including a running stag on the cheek-piece, horn-inlaid patch-box cover, iron trigger-guard, engraved dark horn fore-end cap and ramrod-pipes, and later horn-tipped ramrod
19in. (48.2cm.) barrel
Provenance
Blell Collection
Galerie Fischer, Luzern, 19 June 1967, Lot 101, 1 December 1971, Lot 266
Galerie Fischer, Luzern, 19 June 1967, Lot 101, 1 December 1971, Lot 266