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A RARE GERMAN BREECH-LOADING BREAK-ACTION FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN with swamped four-stage vertically hinged sighted barrel stepped at the breech and fitted with a reloadable iron cartridge with its own pan and steel, engraved faceted tang, signed rounded back-action lock chiselled in relief with a crowned cartouche and with moulded border, the cock chiselled with scrolls, moulded figured walnut full stock carved in relief with scrolls on the fore-end (butt chipped and cracked), moulded iron mounts including waved side-plate terminating in a monster-head, bulbous butt-plate engraved with a dragon, a bird, and an insect, and with long foliate tang, pierced and engraved escutcheon with mermaid supporters and crown above, flattened release catch in front of the trigger-guard, boldly turned iron ramrod-pipes, and original iron-capped ramrod; together with a further ten reloadable cartridges, by Peter Kleinschmit of Lipstadt, circa 1700
45½in. barrel [E.403, S.49]
