BY A. HUHNSTOCK A HANNOVER, CIRCA 1775

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A 24-Bore German D.B. Flintlock Sporting Gun
By A. Huhnstock a Hannover, circa 1775
With shortened sighted two-stage barrels signed 'Ioh. Eitel a Weilburg' on the rib and with silver fore-sight, engraved grooved tang, signed flat bevelled locks (one steel, jaw-screw, and cock-retaining screw replaced), carved moulded figured walnut half-stock (minor bruising), elaborately shaped brass mounts including butt-plate with pierced tang, pierced brass escutcheon, iron sling mounts, and associated brass-tipped ramrod with worm (iron parts with minor pitting)
29½in. (75cm.) barrels

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Lot Essay

A. Huhnstock was favoured by the British royal family, and examples of his work are preserved at Windsor Castle. The mounts of the present gun and of two rifles at Windsor (inv. nos. L 406 and 410) are highly distinctive. See Howard L. Blackmore, Royal Sporting Guns at Windsor, pp. 6, 49, plates 29 and 49

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