ANOTHER, with heavy barrel signed 'Michel Wagner' and dated 1686, folding back-sight with pierced and engraved finial, similar lock (steel-spring cracked) and mounts but without escutcheon, trigger-guard and trigger-plate with pierced and engraved foliate finials, earlier staghorn-covered patch-box cover finely engraved with a mounted huntsman in 16th Century dress shooting a stag with a wheel-lock pistol in a landscape, the inlay (incomplete) on the cheek-piece representing a leaping stag, horn fore-end cap engraved with foliage, and original horn-tipped ramrod, late 17th Century

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ANOTHER, with heavy barrel signed 'Michel Wagner' and dated 1686, folding back-sight with pierced and engraved finial, similar lock (steel-spring cracked) and mounts but without escutcheon, trigger-guard and trigger-plate with pierced and engraved foliate finials, earlier staghorn-covered patch-box cover finely engraved with a mounted huntsman in 16th Century dress shooting a stag with a wheel-lock pistol in a landscape, the inlay (incomplete) on the cheek-piece representing a leaping stag, horn fore-end cap engraved with foliage, and original horn-tipped ramrod, late 17th Century
25¼in. barrel [E.293, S.18]

Lot Essay

Michel Wagner (1658-circa 1718), worked in Kronach, Bavaria

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