A COMPOSITE GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN with blued two-stage sighted barrel (shortened) chiselled in relief at the breech section with mounted horsemen, one in combat with a foot soldier, a standing female figure, grotesque masks, swags and foliage, moulded walnut half-stock, cheek-piece (split) carved with a foliated scroll, iron mounts chiselled with foliage including butt-plate with long tang, pierced side-plate and escutcheon, and faceted ramrod-pipes (lock and ramrod missing), late 17th Century; and another, with sighted three-stage barrel engraved 'Lazaro Lazarino' on the octagonal breech, bevelled lock (cock missing, steel refaced) with traces of engraving, figured walnut half-stock (butt cracked) carved with foliage, brass mounts including cast and chased trigger-guard, and later ramrod, early 18th Century

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A COMPOSITE GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN with blued two-stage sighted barrel (shortened) chiselled in relief at the breech section with mounted horsemen, one in combat with a foot soldier, a standing female figure, grotesque masks, swags and foliage, moulded walnut half-stock, cheek-piece (split) carved with a foliated scroll, iron mounts chiselled with foliage including butt-plate with long tang, pierced side-plate and escutcheon, and faceted ramrod-pipes (lock and ramrod missing), late 17th Century; and another, with sighted three-stage barrel engraved 'Lazaro Lazarino' on the octagonal breech, bevelled lock (cock missing, steel refaced) with traces of engraving, figured walnut half-stock (butt cracked) carved with foliage, brass mounts including cast and chased trigger-guard, and later ramrod, early 18th Century
36 1/8in. and 43¾in. barrels (2)

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