BY EDWARD BATE, LONDON, LONDON SILVER HALLMARKS FOR 1774 AND 1775, THE BARREL AND ACTION BY G. E. PETER OF CARLSBAD, CIRCA 1725

細節

A Fine And Rare 26-Bore Silver-Mounted Four-Shot Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Edward Bate, London, London silver hallmarks for 1774 and 1775, the barrel and action by G. E. Peter of Carlsbad, circa 1725
With swamped sighted barrel with punched and gilt floral and foliate decoration at the muzzle and on the short octagonal breech section, and inscribed 'Bate/London' in gold capital letters, hand-rotated cylinder with further punched and gilt decoration involving figures emblematic of war and fortune, gold-lined touch-holes, pans, and pan-covers, long punched and gilt tang retained by two screws, flat back-action lock signed 'G.E. Petter (sic)' and with moulded border, the plate engraved with a seated Classical warrior and martial accoutrements, figured walnut butt finely carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel tang (old inset repair below the front of the lock), short fore-end, finely engraved silver mounts including shaped solid side-plate, the tang of the butt-plate cast and chased in relief with rococo ornament, silver escutcheon engraved with owner's monogram and set within a wreath, punched and gilt trigger-plate, engraved silver ramrod-pipes, and original horn-tipped ramrod with worm, London proof marks, silver maker's mark of John King
43¾in. (111.2cm.) barrel

出版

W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, p. 111, plates 402-405

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品專文

This gun may have been the prototype of a similar (cased) silver-mounted gun entirely by Bate, preserved today in an English private collection
Georg Ernst Peter is recorded in Carlsbad circa 1690-1725. A four-shot gun by him in the Hofjagd- und Leibrüstkammer, Vienna (inv. no. D486) indicates how the present gun looked in its original form. See Hans Schedelmann, Die Grossen Büchsenmacher, p. 226, plate 325