Lot 155
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A VERY RARE AUSTRIAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE originally intended to fire two superimposed loads, with sighted barrel rifled with six grooves, grooved at the breech and stamped twice with a lion mark (similar to Neue Støckel 5499 and 5516), signed enclosed flat lock engraved with a sportsman in a landscape, with a hind and chamois, engraved cock, fruitwood full stock and patch-box cover stained black and inlaid with engraved silver panels, the side-plate in the form of a marine monster, the cheek-piece with two ostriches, iron trigger-guard, set trigger, engraved silver ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap, and original silver-tipped ramrod (butt-plate, patch-box cover base-plate, and one plaque missing), by Johan Krach, Salzburg, circa 1650-60

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A VERY RARE AUSTRIAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE originally intended to fire two superimposed loads, with sighted barrel rifled with six grooves, grooved at the breech and stamped twice with a lion mark (similar to Neue Støckel 5499 and 5516), signed enclosed flat lock engraved with a sportsman in a landscape, with a hind and chamois, engraved cock, fruitwood full stock and patch-box cover stained black and inlaid with engraved silver panels, the side-plate in the form of a marine monster, the cheek-piece with two ostriches, iron trigger-guard, set trigger, engraved silver ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap, and original silver-tipped ramrod (butt-plate, patch-box cover base-plate, and one plaque missing), by Johan Krach, Salzburg, circa 1650-60
38in. barrel [E.148, S.21]

Lot Essay

Johan Krach of Suhl and Ebenau near Salzburg is recorded 1636-86. He married the daughter of Johann Paul Klett, and worked in Ebenan from 1636 to 1663, when he returned to Suhl. Like the Klett family he produced multishot and multibarrel firearms, with very similar form, finish and decoration

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