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AN AUSTRIAN WHEEL-LOCK CARBINE OF THE GUARD (SCHÜTZENKOMPANIE ST. JOHANN) OF WOLF DIETRICH VON RAITENAU, PRINCE ARCHBISHOP OF SALZBURG (R.1587-1612), BY GEORG ZELLNER

LATE 16TH CENTURY

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AN AUSTRIAN WHEEL-LOCK CARBINE OF THE GUARD (SCHÜTZENKOMPANIE ST. JOHANN) OF WOLF DIETRICH VON RAITENAU, PRINCE ARCHBISHOP OF SALZBURG (R.1587-1612), BY GEORG ZELLNER
Late 16th Century
With two-stage barrel with moulded muzzle, brass fore-sight, struck with maker's mark on the breech, in a shield '.Z.', pierced standing brass back-sight, flat lock struck with maker's mark, in a shield 'TW', a standing figure between (Johan.F.Støckel B5563, p. 933), domed iron wheel-cover, attached key, safety-catch and sliding pan-cover, fruitwood full stock decorated over its length with engraved horn plaques, rosettes and sparse arrangements of ball flowers all within horn lines, including a characteristic pierced cartouche opposite the lock and on both sides of the butt, horn butt-plate engraved around the border, iron trigger-guard, the ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap each of engraved horn, and wooden ramrod with engraved horn tip (three minor pieces of inlay replaced).
32½in (82.5cm)

Provenance

Jean Gilardi

Literature

Alaric and A. Serpette, Une arme a rouet princiere tres particuliere, G.d.A. No.200, May 1990

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Lot Essay

Another example of identical configuration and bearing the same marks on both the barrel and the lock is in the von Kienbusch collection, 1963 cat.no. 637. Johann Støckel also records the lockmaker's mark on a wheel-lock gun in the Hunagrian National Museum, Budapest; the mark would seem to remain unattributed.

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