BY MORTEN NIELSEN KIERVOLF (SIC), COPENHAGEN, CIRCA 1675

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A Rare 9-Bore Danish Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Morten Nielsen Kiervolf (sic), Copenhagen, circa 1675
With heavy straight-grooved swamped three-stage sighted barrel, the breech section octagonal changing to fluted sixteen-sided and struck with maker's mark 'MN' above a star forward of the stepped ramp at the rear, rectangular tang, rounded lock signed on a shield held by a pikeman seated within a trophy of arms involving a standard engraved with the cypher of King Christian V (reg. 1670-1699), the tail engraved with a triton and fitted with stud safety-catch, the cock and steel finely chiselled in relief with scrolls, moulded figured walnut half-stock (reduced from full, minor bruising) with a raised panel at the barrel tang, iron mounts including chiselled scrolled side-plate of Parisian pattern book inspiration, butt-plate with long tang, shaped trigger-guard with fluted bow and applied iron sling mount, the butt with patch-box, iron fore-end cap, pierced trigger, and iron-mounted ramrod
37 7/8in. (96.2cm.) barrel

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Lot Essay

The cypher engraved on the lock suggests that this gun was made for use on the occasion of royal shooting parties
Morten Nielsen Kjerulf was successor to Paul Nielsen Normand. Both made guns and rifles similar to the present example (cf. Tøjhusmuseet inv. nos. B771 and B822, and Rosenborg Castle inv. no. 6-145). See A. Hoff, Aeldre Dansk Bøssemageri, pp. 220-221, figs. 27-28

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