A VERY RARE 28-BORE AUSTRIAN BREAK-ACTION BREECH-LOADING SNAP-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE

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A VERY RARE 28-BORE AUSTRIAN BREAK-ACTION BREECH-LOADING SNAP-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE

BY MICHAEL GULL, VIENNA, CIRCA 1650-60

With signed sighted swamped octagonal barrel (pitted) cut with nine grooves, engraved with foliage at the breech, and released by two spring-catches in front of the trigger-guard, rifled reloadable cartridge with steel and pan attached, rectangular tang engraved with a grotesque mask and foliage and secured by two screws, case-hardened action engraved with flowers and foliage, the back-action lock with chiselled external mainspring and full cock position only, held in the Spanish fashion, figured walnut full stock, fluted fore-end, indented iron trigger-guard, dark horn patch-box cover and butt-plate with iron button, white and dark horn ramrod-pipes and fore-end cap, set trigger, iron sling mounts, and original ramrod with white and dark horn tip
28 3/8in. barrel

出版

The British Sporting Exhibition, P. 34
The Illustrated London News, 15 January 1938, p. 101 (illustrated)
Hans Schedelmann, Die Großen Büchsenmacher, p. 138
Arne Hoff, Feuerwaffen II, p. 216, plate 162

展覽

The British Sporting Exhibition at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, 14-30 January 1938, No. 6

拍品專文

For the British Sporting Exhibition see lots 60, 117 and 136, and footnote to lot 191

Michael Gull was master in 1647, and died in 1679. He specialised in breech-loaders and made the ivory-stocked wheel-lock rifle for the Emperor Leopold I, preserved in the Vienna Waffensammlung (D 239)

An almost identical rifle by Franz Jeiadtel of Vienna in the Tøjhusmuseet, Copenhagen (No. B. 570) is illustrated in Howard L. Blackmore, Guns and Rifles of the World, plates 412-3

See John Hayward, The Art of the Gunmaker, Vol. II, p. 118; Hans Shedelmann, Die Wiener Büchsenmacher und Büchsenschäfter, pp. 8 and 9, plates 7, 11, 57, 58 and 60; and Die Großen Büchsenmacher, pp. 138-141, plates 224-227