Lot 196
196
A VERY RARE BOHEMIAN FLINTLOCK GUN WITH CONCEALED MECHANISM, the octagonal sighted barrel with breech section housing the cock, signed on the top flat, and engraved with foliage, the steel engraved with foliage and closing flush with the barrel when cocked, moulded figured walnut full stock lightly carved with foliage, the butt with cheek-piece, plain brass mounts of foliate outline comprising rear ramrod-pipe, side-plates, trigger-guard, and butt-plate, iron cocking-trigger and sling-loop, brass fore-end cap and faceted ramrod-pipes, and brass-tipped ramrod, signed Veit Kess in Teiniz, circa 1765

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A VERY RARE BOHEMIAN FLINTLOCK GUN WITH CONCEALED MECHANISM, the octagonal sighted barrel with breech section housing the cock, signed on the top flat, and engraved with foliage, the steel engraved with foliage and closing flush with the barrel when cocked, moulded figured walnut full stock lightly carved with foliage, the butt with cheek-piece, plain brass mounts of foliate outline comprising rear ramrod-pipe, side-plates, trigger-guard, and butt-plate, iron cocking-trigger and sling-loop, brass fore-end cap and faceted ramrod-pipes, and brass-tipped ramrod, signed Veit Kess in Teiniz, circa 1765
34½in. barrel
Provenance
W.G. Renwick, Sotheby & Co., 19 March, 1973, lot 2

Lot Essay

For more details regarding firearms of this type see Captain D.R. Baxter, 'Concealed Flintlock Firearms', J.A.A.S., Vol. 5, No. 11, September 1967, pp. 405-21

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