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THIRD QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY
Details
A 60-Bore German Wheel-Lock Sporting Gun
Third quarter of the 17th Century
With swamped octagonal sighted barrel struck with three acorn marks and 'HE' conjoined (Neue Stckel 2821), blued flat lock with integral wheel-cover and sliding pan-cover with baluster release button, lightly carved walnut full stock (minor damage) decorated with panels of imitation staghorn, studded with dome-headed steel nails, and inlaid with an elaborate design of steel wire scrolls and pellets on the butt and opposite the lock, raised cheek-piece, sliding patch-box cover, set trigger, iron mounts, iron fore-end cap, and original iron-tipped ramrod
25.3/8in. (88.8cm.) barrel
Third quarter of the 17th Century
With swamped octagonal sighted barrel struck with three acorn marks and 'HE' conjoined (Neue Stckel 2821), blued flat lock with integral wheel-cover and sliding pan-cover with baluster release button, lightly carved walnut full stock (minor damage) decorated with panels of imitation staghorn, studded with dome-headed steel nails, and inlaid with an elaborate design of steel wire scrolls and pellets on the butt and opposite the lock, raised cheek-piece, sliding patch-box cover, set trigger, iron mounts, iron fore-end cap, and original iron-tipped ramrod
25.3/8in. (88.8cm.) barrel
Provenance
The Grand Dukes of Saxe-Weimar, Schlo Ettersburg