Lot Essay
Cf. the pair of Baltic snap-lock rifles also from Kranichstein, sold from the W. Keith Neal Collection in these Rooms, 9 November 2000, lot 128 (£8,812 including premium)
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CIRCA 1650
Details
A Rare 140-Bore Scandinavian Snap-Lock Birding Rifle
Circa 1650
With swamped octagonal sighted barrel cut with eight grooves and retaining much of its original blued finish, brass fore-sight, plain tang, flat lock with coiled external mainspring, L-shaped cock, and swing-out safety-steel, beech full stock (minor chips and bruising) incised with foliage on a hatched ground, iron mounts, dark horn butt-plate, trigger-plate, and side-nail washers, patch-box on the underside of the butt, iron fore-end band (a second band missing), and brass-mounted ramrod
33in. (83.8cm.) barrel
Circa 1650
With swamped octagonal sighted barrel cut with eight grooves and retaining much of its original blued finish, brass fore-sight, plain tang, flat lock with coiled external mainspring, L-shaped cock, and swing-out safety-steel, beech full stock (minor chips and bruising) incised with foliage on a hatched ground, iron mounts, dark horn butt-plate, trigger-plate, and side-nail washers, patch-box on the underside of the butt, iron fore-end band (a second band missing), and brass-mounted ramrod
33in. (83.8cm.) barrel
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.