Lot 392
392
A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with signed and dated swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, plain lock struck with a mark, a crowned fish on a shield, and with integral wheel-cover pierced with a stylised heart, chiselled cock and cock-spring, lightly carved moulded figured walnut full stock (fore-end cracked and chipped), iron trigger-guard, set trigger, turned ramrod-pipes, and banded iron fore-end cap (ramrod missing), Michael Grienwalt of Munich, dated 1661

Details
A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with signed and dated swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, plain lock struck with a mark, a crowned fish on a shield, and with integral wheel-cover pierced with a stylised heart, chiselled cock and cock-spring, lightly carved moulded figured walnut full stock (fore-end cracked and chipped), iron trigger-guard, set trigger, turned ramrod-pipes, and banded iron fore-end cap (ramrod missing), Michael Grienwalt of Munich, dated 1661
32½in. barrel [E.213, S.13]
Literature
Hoff, 'Die Waffensammlung in Schloß Dyck', p.132

Lot Essay

The distinctive butt of this rifle, which is also found on the four following lots, was probably the work of a local gunsmith or gunstocker, woking in the service of the family

Cf. Part I, lots 120-124

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