拍品 47
47
A VERY UNUSUAL 20-BORE ALL-STEEL PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN
A VERY UNUSUAL 20-BORE ALL-STEEL PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN

PROBABLY DUTCH OR NORTH GERMAN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A VERY UNUSUAL 20-BORE ALL-STEEL PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN
PROBABLY DUTCH OR NORTH GERMAN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With slightly tapering sighted barrel fitted with a keg-shaped percussion drum on the right side of the breech, frame fitted with an exposed main-spring on the left side and a large hammer in the form of a hound on the right, skeletal butt filled with scrolls, a large hunting horn and a dog's head, large trigger-guard pierced with a flower-head, sling-mounts, and iron ramrod (some discolouration and light surface corrosion marking throughout, patch of surface corrosion towards the muzzle on the left side of the barrel)
29¾in. (75.5cm.) barrel

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This sporting gun is reminiscent of the flintlock all-steel firearms with exposed mechanisms associated with the Cloeter family of gunmakers of Grevenbroich and Mannheim of the late 17th century, although the trigger is a separate unit in this instance rather than being formed as a single piece with the sear in the case of the earlier Cloeter examples. The hound-shaped hammer is in keeping with hammers seen on Spanish percussion firearms of circa 1820-50