A RARE GERMAN SMALL WHEEL-LOCK RIFLE BUILT FOR A CHILD,
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A RARE GERMAN SMALL WHEEL-LOCK RIFLE BUILT FOR A CHILD, MID-17TH CENTURY
with octagonal sighted barrel lightly swamped towards the muzzle and rifled with eight grooves, plain flat lock fitted with external wheel retained by a chamfered bracket, sliding pan-cover and the dog engraved with a marine monster, wooden full stock, fluted fore-end, the butt with cheek-piece inset with a vacant mother-of-pearl shield and fitted with sliding patch-box cover, horn butt-plate and fore-end cap, and iron trigger-guard (fore-end chipped on one side towards the muzzle, the ramrod-pipe and ramrod missing, covered in old varnish throughout).
24.1 cm; 9½ in barrel: 40.6 cm; 16 in overall
with octagonal sighted barrel lightly swamped towards the muzzle and rifled with eight grooves, plain flat lock fitted with external wheel retained by a chamfered bracket, sliding pan-cover and the dog engraved with a marine monster, wooden full stock, fluted fore-end, the butt with cheek-piece inset with a vacant mother-of-pearl shield and fitted with sliding patch-box cover, horn butt-plate and fore-end cap, and iron trigger-guard (fore-end chipped on one side towards the muzzle, the ramrod-pipe and ramrod missing, covered in old varnish throughout).
24.1 cm; 9½ in barrel: 40.6 cm; 16 in overall
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A RARE GERMAN SMALL WHEEL-LOCK RIFLE BUILT FOR A CHILD,
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000
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