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BY LOUIS BURKHARDT IN GREUSSEN, CIRCA 1860
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A 16-Bore German D.B. Percussion Sporting Gun
By Louis Burkhardt in Greussen, circa 1860
With twist sighted barrels signed in full in gold script on the rib, gold breech line, patent gold-inlaid breeches chiselled with foliage in low relief, long gold-inlaid tang en suite with shaped central panel chiselled in relief with a sportsman, dog, and hare against a gilt ground, back-action locks en suite and each with chiselled and gilt panel decorated with sporting vignettes, chiselled hammers, the noses each in the form of a stylised lion-head with gilt eyes, swivelling safety-stops, figured walnut half-stock finely carved in relief against a matted ground with scrollwork and with a lion-mask behind the chequered grip, and two foxes in a wooded landscape behind the cheek-piece, fore-end tip carved as a monster-head, carved horn trigger-guard (chipped), horn butt-plate, and later ramrod, the underside of the fore-end with iron escutcheon cast with a coat-of-arms (one sling mount missing)
36in. (92.1cm.) barrels
By Louis Burkhardt in Greussen, circa 1860
With twist sighted barrels signed in full in gold script on the rib, gold breech line, patent gold-inlaid breeches chiselled with foliage in low relief, long gold-inlaid tang en suite with shaped central panel chiselled in relief with a sportsman, dog, and hare against a gilt ground, back-action locks en suite and each with chiselled and gilt panel decorated with sporting vignettes, chiselled hammers, the noses each in the form of a stylised lion-head with gilt eyes, swivelling safety-stops, figured walnut half-stock finely carved in relief against a matted ground with scrollwork and with a lion-mask behind the chequered grip, and two foxes in a wooded landscape behind the cheek-piece, fore-end tip carved as a monster-head, carved horn trigger-guard (chipped), horn butt-plate, and later ramrod, the underside of the fore-end with iron escutcheon cast with a coat-of-arms (one sling mount missing)
36in. (92.1cm.) barrels