A GERMAN 11-BORE D.B. PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN with heavy browned twist sighted barrels, case-hardened tang engraved with rococo ornament and flowerheads, signed flat case-hardened locks, hammers with fluted noses and gravitating stops engraved en suite, highly figured walnut half-stock with cheek-piece, case-hardened iron mounts including trigger-guard and butt-plate engraved en suite with the locks, the former with spurred and scrolled walnut tang, gold escutcheon engraved with the crowned arms of Salm within mantling, sling swivels, original horn-tipped wooden ramrod, and most of its original finish, by Adam Rosen in Dyck, circa 1830-40

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A GERMAN 11-BORE D.B. PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN with heavy browned twist sighted barrels, case-hardened tang engraved with rococo ornament and flowerheads, signed flat case-hardened locks, hammers with fluted noses and gravitating stops engraved en suite, highly figured walnut half-stock with cheek-piece, case-hardened iron mounts including trigger-guard and butt-plate engraved en suite with the locks, the former with spurred and scrolled walnut tang, gold escutcheon engraved with the crowned arms of Salm within mantling, sling swivels, original horn-tipped wooden ramrod, and most of its original finish, by Adam Rosen in Dyck, circa 1830-40
34in. barrels [E.450]

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Made for Fürst Alfred (1811-1888)

For this maker see footnote to lot 276

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