Lot 276
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A GERMAN 18-BORE D.B. PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN with earlier twist sighted barrels punched and gilt at the muzzles with foliate pendants, and at the breech with foliage and urns, the rib signed 'Pierre Greverath A Dyck' in gold at the breech, case-hardened tang engraved with foliage, engraved flat case-hardened locks, the hammers chiselled as monsters with gilt eyes, figured walnut half-stock with cheek-piece, and integral spurred and scrolled trigger-guard, and sling swivels (one incomplete, ramrod missing), unsigned but almost certainly remounted by Adam Rosen of Dyck, Liège proof mark, mid-19th Century

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A GERMAN 18-BORE D.B. PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN with earlier twist sighted barrels punched and gilt at the muzzles with foliate pendants, and at the breech with foliage and urns, the rib signed 'Pierre Greverath A Dyck' in gold at the breech, case-hardened tang engraved with foliage, engraved flat case-hardened locks, the hammers chiselled as monsters with gilt eyes, figured walnut half-stock with cheek-piece, and integral spurred and scrolled trigger-guard, and sling swivels (one incomplete, ramrod missing), unsigned but almost certainly remounted by Adam Rosen of Dyck, Liège proof mark, mid-19th Century
32¾in. barrels [E.447]

Lot Essay

Adam Rosen, recorded 1801-1860, moved from Cologne to Schloss Dyck, where he succeeded Pierre Greverath in 1828. He also worked as a steel chiseller

Pierre Greverath came from Steinforth near Düsseldorf. He became gunmaker to Altgraf Franz Johann Wilhelm in 1774, and then to Altgraf (later Fürst) Josef

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