A RARE AUSTRIAN MIQUELET-LOCK SPORTING GUN FOR BALL, fitted with an earlier silver-inlaid Turkish twist barrel of fine quality in four stages with barrelsmith's mark, and standing back-sight, the flat of the muzzle inlaid with silver dots, lock of shaped outline with foliate engraved bridle to the cock and pan, moulded full stock, the butt carved in the form of a monster's head with horn-inlaid eyes, shaped iron mounts, turned iron ramrod-pipes, and no tail-pipe (ramrod missing), early 18th Century, the barrel late 17th Century | Christie's

Lot 77

A RARE AUSTRIAN MIQUELET-LOCK SPORTING GUN FOR BALL, fitted with an earlier silver-inlaid Turkish twist barrel of fine quality in four stages with barrelsmith's mark, and standing back-sight, the flat of the muzzle inlaid with silver dots, lock of shaped outline with foliate engraved bridle to the cock and pan, moulded full stock, the butt carved in the form of a monster's head with horn-inlaid eyes, shaped iron mounts, turned iron ramrod-pipes, and no tail-pipe (ramrod missing), early 18th Century, the barrel late 17th Century

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A RARE AUSTRIAN MIQUELET-LOCK SPORTING GUN FOR BALL, fitted with an earlier silver-inlaid Turkish twist barrel of fine quality in four stages with barrelsmith's mark, and standing back-sight, the flat of the muzzle inlaid with silver dots, lock of shaped outline with foliate engraved bridle to the cock and pan, moulded full stock, the butt carved in the form of a monster's head with horn-inlaid eyes, shaped iron mounts, turned iron ramrod-pipes, and no tail-pipe (ramrod missing), early 18th Century, the barrel late 17th Century
36¾in. barrel [E.250, S.54(?)]

Lot Essay

The barrel was probably captured during the relief of the siege of Vienna in 1683, and, along with many others, mounted up as a memento

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