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BY PHILIPE DESELLIER, CIRCA 1720
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A RARE 21-BORE LIÈGE FLINTLOCK WENDER FOWLING-PIECE
By Philipe Desellier, circa 1720
With signed four-stage sighted barrels now lightly browned, each struck with a brass-lined mark (Neue Støckel 4372) three times at the breech, engraved tang retained by two screws, signed engraved flat back-action lock with engraved bevelled border, moulded figured walnut full stock (fore-end tips replaced), bronze mounts engraved and chiselled in low relief, pierced side-plate and escutcheon, the latter surmounted by a coronet and charged with a portrait bust, turned faceted brass ramrod-pipes, and later brass-tipped ramrod
44in. (111.8cm.) barrels
By Philipe Desellier, circa 1720
With signed four-stage sighted barrels now lightly browned, each struck with a brass-lined mark (Neue Støckel 4372) three times at the breech, engraved tang retained by two screws, signed engraved flat back-action lock with engraved bevelled border, moulded figured walnut full stock (fore-end tips replaced), bronze mounts engraved and chiselled in low relief, pierced side-plate and escutcheon, the latter surmounted by a coronet and charged with a portrait bust, turned faceted brass ramrod-pipes, and later brass-tipped ramrod
44in. (111.8cm.) barrels
Provenance
The Armoury of Their Serene Highnesses the Princes zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck, Schloß Dyck, Part I, sold in these Rooms, 15 April 1992, lot 111
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