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BY JOHANN ANDREAS KUCHENREUTER, STEINWEG BEI REGENSBURG, CIRCA 1750
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A FINE 40-BORE BAVARIAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL
By Johann Andreas Kuchenreuter, Steinweg bei Regensburg, circa 1750
With swamped tapering barrel signed in silver and gold letters on the full-length sighting flat and inlaid with silver strapwork, the top of the breech with gilt maker's stamp (Neue Støckel 7717), silver spider fore-sight, silver-lined touch-hole, engraved tang numbered '2' and incorporating the back-sight, rounded lock engraved with scrollwork on a punched ground and with moulded border, moulded figured walnut full stock carved with scrolls and strapwork in relief and with a satyr-mask behind the barrel tang, gilt-brass mounts cast and chased with shells, scrolls, foliage, and strapwork in relief on a punched ground, the tang of the trigger-guard numbered '2', set trigger, horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod
17¾in. (45.1cm.)
By Johann Andreas Kuchenreuter, Steinweg bei Regensburg, circa 1750
With swamped tapering barrel signed in silver and gold letters on the full-length sighting flat and inlaid with silver strapwork, the top of the breech with gilt maker's stamp (Neue Støckel 7717), silver spider fore-sight, silver-lined touch-hole, engraved tang numbered '2' and incorporating the back-sight, rounded lock engraved with scrollwork on a punched ground and with moulded border, moulded figured walnut full stock carved with scrolls and strapwork in relief and with a satyr-mask behind the barrel tang, gilt-brass mounts cast and chased with shells, scrolls, foliage, and strapwork in relief on a punched ground, the tang of the trigger-guard numbered '2', set trigger, horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod
17¾in. (45.1cm.)