ANOTHER, with heavy four-stage sighted barrel grooved at the breech and rifled with sixteen grooves, signed border engraved rounded lock (tip of tail missing), walnut full stock with moulded fore-end, carved with scrollwork and with later raised moulding at the barrel tang, the butt with cheek-piece and highly figured patch-box cover, iron mounts including trigger-guard, butt-plate with bulbous heel and long engraved tang above and beneath, scrolled side-plate pierced and chiselled with foliage, and vacant heart-shaped escutcheon en suite and involving two monsters' heads, and horn-tipped ramrod (one ramrod-pipe missing), by Matthias Weins In Collen, circa 1690-1700
Details
ANOTHER, with heavy four-stage sighted barrel grooved at the breech and rifled with sixteen grooves, signed border engraved rounded lock (tip of tail missing), walnut full stock with moulded fore-end, carved with scrollwork and with later raised moulding at the barrel tang, the butt with cheek-piece and highly figured patch-box cover, iron mounts including trigger-guard, butt-plate with bulbous heel and long engraved tang above and beneath, scrolled side-plate pierced and chiselled with foliage, and vacant heart-shaped escutcheon en suite and involving two monsters' heads, and horn-tipped ramrod (one ramrod-pipe missing), by Matthias Weins In Collen, circa 1690-1700
41½in. barrel [E.309, S.10]
Literature
A. Hoff,'Die Waffensammlung in Schloß Dyck', p.133