Lot 191
191
The Property of the Late A.R. DUFTY, Esq., F.S.A., formerly Master of the Armouries, H.M. Tower of London
A HIGHLY UNUSUAL FLINTLOCK CARBINE with an earlier two-stage barrel from the Munich court workshop, finely chiselled in relief on a gilt ground with figures including Venus and Cupid, Mars, Mercury and St. George, martial trophies and animals, within scrolls of flowers and foliage, and bunches of fruit, all heightened with gold dots, long tang en suite, signed engraved and chiselled lock with an early form of rainproof pan chiselled with a mask, and a safety-catch locking the steel (top half of cock replaced), figured walnut full stock (minor repairs) carved with shells in relief at the barrel tang, full silver mounts cast and chased in relief including elaborately pierced side-plate and escutcheon with coronet above, the latter derived from Simonin pattern books, turned silver ramrod-pipes, and silver-tipped ramrod, signed Gandon, the barrel almost certainly by Daniel Sadeler, early 17th Century, the remainder circa 1740-50

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A HIGHLY UNUSUAL FLINTLOCK CARBINE with an earlier two-stage barrel from the Munich court workshop, finely chiselled in relief on a gilt ground with figures including Venus and Cupid, Mars, Mercury and St. George, martial trophies and animals, within scrolls of flowers and foliage, and bunches of fruit, all heightened with gold dots, long tang en suite, signed engraved and chiselled lock with an early form of rainproof pan chiselled with a mask, and a safety-catch locking the steel (top half of cock replaced), figured walnut full stock (minor repairs) carved with shells in relief at the barrel tang, full silver mounts cast and chased in relief including elaborately pierced side-plate and escutcheon with coronet above, the latter derived from Simonin pattern books, turned silver ramrod-pipes, and silver-tipped ramrod, signed Gandon, the barrel almost certainly by Daniel Sadeler, early 17th Century, the remainder circa 1740-50
29½in.
Provenance
The Dukes of Richmond and Gordon, Gordon Castle, and subsequently Goodwood, sold in these Rooms 31 March 1958, lot 168
Literature
Howard L. Blackmore, Guns and Rifles of the World, No. 200-201
Marcello Terenzi, 'Ett Par Pistolpipor av Daniel Sadeler', Svenska Vapenhistoriska Sällskapets Skrifter, N.S. X, Stockholm, 1966, pp. 9-25 and 'Un Sadeler inedito', Diana Armi, Anno VIII, No. 11 (November, 1974), pp. 65-69
Exhibited
Willmer House Museum, 3-29 April, 1962, No. 18
The Art of the Armourer, Victoria and Albert Museum, 19 April - 5 May, 1963, No. 170

Lot Essay

Piere Gandon, a Huguenot, was natuarlised in 1710, and admitted to the freedom of the Gunmakers' Company in 1720. His son Peter was born in 1713 and free of the Company in 1736. He was bankrupted in 1754 and his contract to the Ordnance cancelled in 1757

Daniel Sadeler was Kammervergolder (court gilder) to the Emperor Rudolf II at Prague from 1603 until probably 1610, when he went to Munich: here he was first employed by Duke Albrecht VI, and after 1624 by the Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria

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