A RARE FRENCH OR DUTCH D.B. WENDER FOWLING-PIECE with three-stage sighted barrels (one fore-sight missing), signed flat bevelled back-action lock engraved with flowers and scrolls and with rounded cock with flush-fitting retaining bolt engraved with a flowerhead, moulded full stock (the butt with minor cracks, chips and worming), iron heel-plate secured by tacks, plain iron trigger-guard forming the barrel-release, iron ramrod-pipes without tail-pipe, and original wooden ramrod (tip missing), by Barroy, circa 1660 | Christie's

Lot 384

384

A RARE FRENCH OR DUTCH D.B. WENDER FOWLING-PIECE with three-stage sighted barrels (one fore-sight missing), signed flat bevelled back-action lock engraved with flowers and scrolls and with rounded cock with flush-fitting retaining bolt engraved with a flowerhead, moulded full stock (the butt with minor cracks, chips and worming), iron heel-plate secured by tacks, plain iron trigger-guard forming the barrel-release, iron ramrod-pipes without tail-pipe, and original wooden ramrod (tip missing), by Barroy, circa 1660

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A RARE FRENCH OR DUTCH D.B. WENDER FOWLING-PIECE with three-stage sighted barrels (one fore-sight missing), signed flat bevelled back-action lock engraved with flowers and scrolls and with rounded cock with flush-fitting retaining bolt engraved with a flowerhead, moulded full stock (the butt with minor cracks, chips and worming), iron heel-plate secured by tacks, plain iron trigger-guard forming the barrel-release, iron ramrod-pipes without tail-pipe, and original wooden ramrod (tip missing), by Barroy, circa 1660
46in. barrels [E.405, S.27]

Lot Essay

Pierre Barroy from St. Mihiel (Lorraine), recorded circa 1650-70, may have been active in Maastricht, then moved to Paris in about 1650. His signature appears on firearms made as royal gifts

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