A GERMAN AIR RIFLE with blued octagonal barrel signed in silver at the breech between silver inlaid foliage, silver fore-sight, walnut full stock lightly carved with flowerheads and foliage, the hollow butt (repaired, slight crack) with cheek-piece and fitted with bellows on the inside, pierced brass mounts of shaped outline including butt-plate and side-plate, indented brass trigger-guard, set trigger, cocking-lever with safety-catch, and horn fore-end cap (ramrod missing), by Joh. Mond in Augsburg, early 19th Century

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A GERMAN AIR RIFLE with blued octagonal barrel signed in silver at the breech between silver inlaid foliage, silver fore-sight, walnut full stock lightly carved with flowerheads and foliage, the hollow butt (repaired, slight crack) with cheek-piece and fitted with bellows on the inside, pierced brass mounts of shaped outline including butt-plate and side-plate, indented brass trigger-guard, set trigger, cocking-lever with safety-catch, and horn fore-end cap (ramrod missing), by Joh. Mond in Augsburg, early 19th Century
31½in.barrel [E.428, S.37]

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