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Cf. a Kranichstein rifle of very similar form by the same maker sold from the W. Keith Neal Collection in these Rooms, 9 November 2000, lot 130, and similar Bosler air weapons still at Kranichstein, in the Royal Amouries, Leeds (inv. no. XII. 715) and Windsor Castle (inv. no. L 273)
Landgrave Ludwig VIII, for whom Johann Peter Bosler and his son Friedrich Jakob worked in succession as court gunmakers in Darmstadt, was a most ardent lover of air weapons, many of which remain at Kranichstein. A game book in the Schloßmuseum, Darmstadt records a 'specification of all the curious shots which His Serene Highness...has fired since 1742...with airgun as in other ways, which here is collected with great care'. The kills are listed on several hundred pages, each with a poem and a painting of the quarry, usually by the Hofjadgmaler (court hunt-painter) Georg Adam Eger. One page (7 June 1749) describes a buck killed with an air rifle at 154 paces. In 1747 he killed a 22-point stag weighing 480 lb., and in 1749 over 100 wild boar, all with his air rifles. See Arne Hoff, Airguns and Other Pneumatic Weapons, pp. 49-53
Landgrave Ludwig VIII, for whom Johann Peter Bosler and his son Friedrich Jakob worked in succession as court gunmakers in Darmstadt, was a most ardent lover of air weapons, many of which remain at Kranichstein. A game book in the Schloßmuseum, Darmstadt records a 'specification of all the curious shots which His Serene Highness...has fired since 1742...with airgun as in other ways, which here is collected with great care'. The kills are listed on several hundred pages, each with a poem and a painting of the quarry, usually by the Hofjadgmaler (court hunt-painter) Georg Adam Eger. One page (7 June 1749) describes a buck killed with an air rifle at 154 paces. In 1747 he killed a 22-point stag weighing 480 lb., and in 1749 over 100 wild boar, all with his air rifles. See Arne Hoff, Airguns and Other Pneumatic Weapons, pp. 49-53