BY JOHANN KRUMMENAUER, CIRCA 1700
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A 30-Bore Viennese Wheel-Lock Rifled Carbine
By Johann Krummenauer, circa 1700
With swamped octagonal barrel rifled with eight grooves, signed at the breech and deeply struck with brass-lined maker's mark, folding leaf back-sight with pierced and chiselled extension, flat lock engraved with a sportsman aiming his wheel-lock at a hare in a netted landscape, pierced and engraved bronze wheel-cover and bridle to the cock-spring, the former decorated with a double-headed eagle, figured fruitwood full stock inlaid at a later date with white horn scrollwork and dots, and dark and white horn geometric designs enriched with pieces of mother-of-pearl, horn-covered wooden patch-box cover inlaid with white horn lines and roundels (one missing), white and dark horn butt-plate, horn fore-end cap inlaid with white horn lines, set trigger, indented iron trigger-guard with foliate finial, pierced and engraved bone ramrod-pipes, and wooden ramrod tipped with white and dark horn
21in. (53.3cm.)
By Johann Krummenauer, circa 1700
With swamped octagonal barrel rifled with eight grooves, signed at the breech and deeply struck with brass-lined maker's mark, folding leaf back-sight with pierced and chiselled extension, flat lock engraved with a sportsman aiming his wheel-lock at a hare in a netted landscape, pierced and engraved bronze wheel-cover and bridle to the cock-spring, the former decorated with a double-headed eagle, figured fruitwood full stock inlaid at a later date with white horn scrollwork and dots, and dark and white horn geometric designs enriched with pieces of mother-of-pearl, horn-covered wooden patch-box cover inlaid with white horn lines and roundels (one missing), white and dark horn butt-plate, horn fore-end cap inlaid with white horn lines, set trigger, indented iron trigger-guard with foliate finial, pierced and engraved bone ramrod-pipes, and wooden ramrod tipped with white and dark horn
21in. (53.3cm.)
Provenance
Charles Draeger, Sotheby & Co., Monaco, 7 December 1987, Lot 105