Lot 30
30
FLINTLOCK LONGARMS
A GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN with two-stage sighted barrel, flat bevelled lock (top jaw and screw missing), later figured walnut half-stock, and brass mounts engraved with foliage (trigger-guard adapted, ramrod missing), 18th Century; and another, with four-stage sighted barrel, octagonal breech with traces of engraved decoration, rounded lock engraved with foliage (trigger missing), later walnut half-stock with integral spurred trigger-guard and rear ramrod-pipe, and wooden ramrod, the barrel and lock third quarter of the 17th Century

Details
A GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN with two-stage sighted barrel, flat bevelled lock (top jaw and screw missing), later figured walnut half-stock, and brass mounts engraved with foliage (trigger-guard adapted, ramrod missing), 18th Century; and another, with four-stage sighted barrel, octagonal breech with traces of engraved decoration, rounded lock engraved with foliage (trigger missing), later walnut half-stock with integral spurred trigger-guard and rear ramrod-pipe, and wooden ramrod, the barrel and lock third quarter of the 17th Century
43in. and 41¾in. barrels [E.380,381, S.42,13] (2)

Lot Essay

The second probably restocked in the late 18th Century by Pierre Greverath at Schloss Dyck

Geverath came from Steinforth near Düsseldorf. He became gunmaker to Altgraf Franz Johann Wilhelm in 1774, and then to Altgraf (later Fürst) Josef Salm. Adam Rosen (see lots 9-11,19-20,22,26, and 227-8) was probably apprenticed to him. His masterpiece is the double-barrelled gun, lot 35

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