Lot 55
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A RARE PAIR OF GERMAN OR DUTCH FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLES with four-stage sighted barrels swamped at the muzzle and rifled with eight grooves, octagonal breeches changing to polygonal and each struck with the dagger mark of Essen (Støckel 4917), signed rounded locks (comb of one cock, one cock retaining screw, one side-nail and one top jaw and screw missing), figured walnut full stock carved with scrolls and foliage around the tang, iron mounts including trigger-guards, rounded scrolled side-plates of French design, and thin butt-plates each with long tang above and below, turned ramrod-pipes, and wooden ramrods, one with steel tip, by Jan Rösmol, circa 1685

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A RARE PAIR OF GERMAN OR DUTCH FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLES with four-stage sighted barrels swamped at the muzzle and rifled with eight grooves, octagonal breeches changing to polygonal and each struck with the dagger mark of Essen (Støckel 4917), signed rounded locks (comb of one cock, one cock retaining screw, one side-nail and one top jaw and screw missing), figured walnut full stock carved with scrolls and foliage around the tang, iron mounts including trigger-guards, rounded scrolled side-plates of French design, and thin butt-plates each with long tang above and below, turned ramrod-pipes, and wooden ramrods, one with steel tip, by Jan Rösmol, circa 1685
39½in. and 39¾in. barrels [E.375,376, S.5,6] (2)

Lot Essay

Although listed by Støckel as a Dutch maker, the similarity between this and the following lot suggest that Jan Rösmol was an Essen maker

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