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J.A. Kuchenreuter (1716-1795) was court gunmaker to the Princes of Thurn and Taxis
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BY JOHANN ANDREAS KUCHENREUTER, STEINWEG BEI REGENSBURG, CIRCA 1760
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A FINE PAIR OF BAVARIAN FLINTLOCK PISTOLS
By Johann Andreas Kuchenreuter, Steinweg bei Regensburg, circa 1760
With reblued swamped tapering barrels signed in silver on the sighting flats and inlaid with silver scrolls and strapwork, the top of each breech with gilt maker's stamp (Neue Støckel 7717), silver spider fore-sights, engraved tangs numbered respectively '1' and '2' and each incorporating the back-sight with two extra leaves, rounded locks each chiselled in low relief with scrollwork and a hound in pursuit of a stag, all on a punched ground, moulded figured walnut full stocks carved with scrolls and strapwork in relief, gilt-bronze mounts cast and chased with rococo motifs and landscapes enclosing a hound, stags, and a hind, all in relief on a punched ground, the butts each cut for a shoulder-stock (cover for one aperture replaced), set triggers, horn fore-end caps, and original horn-tipped ramrods
10½in. (26.7cm.) (2)
By Johann Andreas Kuchenreuter, Steinweg bei Regensburg, circa 1760
With reblued swamped tapering barrels signed in silver on the sighting flats and inlaid with silver scrolls and strapwork, the top of each breech with gilt maker's stamp (Neue Støckel 7717), silver spider fore-sights, engraved tangs numbered respectively '1' and '2' and each incorporating the back-sight with two extra leaves, rounded locks each chiselled in low relief with scrollwork and a hound in pursuit of a stag, all on a punched ground, moulded figured walnut full stocks carved with scrolls and strapwork in relief, gilt-bronze mounts cast and chased with rococo motifs and landscapes enclosing a hound, stags, and a hind, all in relief on a punched ground, the butts each cut for a shoulder-stock (cover for one aperture replaced), set triggers, horn fore-end caps, and original horn-tipped ramrods
10½in. (26.7cm.) (2)