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Johann Melchior Winter is recorded between 1710 and 1759, the year of his death. He succeeded Friedrich Ostermann in 1720
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A RARE DANISH FLINTLOCK COACHING CARBINE
BY JOHAN WINTER, COPENHAGEN, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
With belled sighted barrel engraved on the flat of the muzzle, chiselled in relief with acanthus foliage on the sighting flat, and with stepped ramp at the breech, plain tang, signed rounded lock with moulded border and chiselled details on the cock, steel, and steel-spring, plain figured walnut full stock without butt-plate (repaired at the fore-end tip and below the lock), pierced and chiselled scrolled iron side-plate involving a monster-head, iron trigger-guard with fluted bow and foliate finial, baluster ramrod-pipes, and iron-capped ramrod (replaced), restocked and fitted with a hooked breech plug and barrel-bolts in England in the 1760s, the work probably carried out by Joseph Griffin of Bond Street, London
27¼in.
BY JOHAN WINTER, COPENHAGEN, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
With belled sighted barrel engraved on the flat of the muzzle, chiselled in relief with acanthus foliage on the sighting flat, and with stepped ramp at the breech, plain tang, signed rounded lock with moulded border and chiselled details on the cock, steel, and steel-spring, plain figured walnut full stock without butt-plate (repaired at the fore-end tip and below the lock), pierced and chiselled scrolled iron side-plate involving a monster-head, iron trigger-guard with fluted bow and foliate finial, baluster ramrod-pipes, and iron-capped ramrod (replaced), restocked and fitted with a hooked breech plug and barrel-bolts in England in the 1760s, the work probably carried out by Joseph Griffin of Bond Street, London
27¼in.