A GERMAN FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE in the manner of Armand Bongarde of Düsseldorf, with three-stage sighted barrel with stamped counterfeit Lazarino Cominazzo signature at the breech, plain flat lock with moulded bevelled border and stepped tail, moulded lightly carved highly figured maple half-stock (chipped and cracked), fluted butt, iron mounts, horn side-nail washers, pierced iron barrel-band, and associated turned brass ramrod-pipe (ramrod and top jaw missing, jaw screw incomplete), unsigned, circa 1720
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A GERMAN FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE in the manner of Armand Bongarde of Düsseldorf, with three-stage sighted barrel with stamped counterfeit Lazarino Cominazzo signature at the breech, plain flat lock with moulded bevelled border and stepped tail, moulded lightly carved highly figured maple half-stock (chipped and cracked), fluted butt, iron mounts, horn side-nail washers, pierced iron barrel-band, and associated turned brass ramrod-pipe (ramrod and top jaw missing, jaw screw incomplete), unsigned, circa 1720
49¾in. barrel [E.271, S.15]
Lot Essay
For similar guns in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum see Erwin Schalkhaßer, Handfeuerwaffen, No.s 122, 124, 127 and 129