Lot Essay
C. Durel was one of several airgun makers in Koblenz. See Arne Hoff, Airguns, p. 53
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A 32-BORE GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING AIR RIFLE
BY C. DUREL, KOBLENZ, CIRCA 1730
With swamped octagonal sighted barrel cut with seven grooves, engraved tang, signed flat bevelled lock, moulded walnut full stock (chipped and cracked, fore-end tip incomplete) carved in relief with foliage, cheek-piece, engraved brass mounts retaining most of their engraved decoration, including shaped solid side-plate with a scene of the chase, the reservoir housed within the butt, the butt-plate with sprung hinged cover to the aperture for the pump, engraved octagonal brass ramrod-pipes, and original wooden ramrod (in worn condition, iron parts pitted)
33½in. barrel
BY C. DUREL, KOBLENZ, CIRCA 1730
With swamped octagonal sighted barrel cut with seven grooves, engraved tang, signed flat bevelled lock, moulded walnut full stock (chipped and cracked, fore-end tip incomplete) carved in relief with foliage, cheek-piece, engraved brass mounts retaining most of their engraved decoration, including shaped solid side-plate with a scene of the chase, the reservoir housed within the butt, the butt-plate with sprung hinged cover to the aperture for the pump, engraved octagonal brass ramrod-pipes, and original wooden ramrod (in worn condition, iron parts pitted)
33½in. barrel