AN AUSTRIAN D.B. FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN with shortened barrels made without central rib, each with long signed sighting-flat engraved with strapwork and foliage at the breech, separate engraved tangs, flat bevelled locks engraved with strapwork, sportsmen, hounds and game, cocks and steels engraved with strapwork en suite (one cock and one steel old replacements), moulded figured walnut half-stock (some bruising and repairs), the butt with cheek-piece, brass mounts cast and chased with strapwork and foliage and comprising rear ramrod-pipe, spur trigger-guard and butt-plate, the last numbered 376, engraved brass ramrod-pipes, the front one securing the barrels and incorporating the fore-sight, iron sling-loop, horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod, signed Antoni Rosenberger In Herzogenburg, second quarter of the 18th Century

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AN AUSTRIAN D.B. FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN with shortened barrels made without central rib, each with long signed sighting-flat engraved with strapwork and foliage at the breech, separate engraved tangs, flat bevelled locks engraved with strapwork, sportsmen, hounds and game, cocks and steels engraved with strapwork en suite (one cock and one steel old replacements), moulded figured walnut half-stock (some bruising and repairs), the butt with cheek-piece, brass mounts cast and chased with strapwork and foliage and comprising rear ramrod-pipe, spur trigger-guard and butt-plate, the last numbered 376, engraved brass ramrod-pipes, the front one securing the barrels and incorporating the fore-sight, iron sling-loop, horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod, signed Antoni Rosenberger In Herzogenburg, second quarter of the 18th Century
41in. barrels
Provenance
W.G. Renwick, Sotheby & Co., 19 March, 1973, lot 7

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