A RARE .62 SAXON BREECH-LOADING BREAK-ACTION FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE

BY VALTIN (VALENTIN) REWER (RÖVER) IN DRESDEN, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Details

A RARE .62 SAXON BREECH-LOADING BREAK-ACTION FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE
By Valtin (Valentin) Rewer (Röver) in Dresden, early 18th Century
With lightly swamped octagonal sighted barrel signed at the breech and cut with seven grooves, long border engraved faceted tang retained by two screws, plain faceted burnished lock and reloadable cartridge with attached pan and steel, figured walnut full stock carved with strapwork in low relief, sliding patch-box cover en suite, faceted iron mounts including engraved butt-plate and trigger-guard finial, engraved and chiselled scrolled foliate side-plate, faceted release-button in front of the trigger-guard, faceted ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, and original horn-tipped ramrod, the toe of the butt with brass armoury tag numbered 'IIII'
33 1/8in. barrel

Provenance

Abercrombie & Fitch, 1965

Literature

Merrill Lindsay, One Hundred Great Guns, p. 117 (illustrated)

Lot Essay

Valentin Rewer (1659-1736) was born in Osterwieck in Brunswick, and was admitted master gunmaker in Dresden in 1690, where he founded a gunmaking business which lasted four generations. He was appointed maker to the Dresden arsenal in 1695, and received commissions from the Grand Duke of Tuscany. Rewer is well represented by firearms (both wheel-lock and flintlock) still in the Dresden Armouries. See Dieter Schaal, Katalog Dresdener Büchsenmacher 16.-18. Jh., pp. 84-89

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