A 26-BORE GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK RIFLED SPORTING CARBINE,
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A 26-BORE GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK RIFLED SPORTING CARBINE, DATED 1667
with brass polygonal sighted barrel swamped at the muzzle, cut with very small decorative bands and rifled with eight grooves, iron tang, flat lock fitted with lightly chiselled wheel-bracket and brass bridle over the dog-spring, fruitwood full stock, fluted fore-end, the rearward portion of the stock incised with leaf ornament and hatched matted designs of scrolling foliage, decorated with a stag over the cheek-piece, the date incised beneath, inlaid with a pair of engraved horn rosette washers impaled by the lock side-nails, incised decorated thumb-rest, and the borders cut with both linear and wavy bands en suite with the barrel, fitted with patch-box cover (the veneered upper section missing), horn butt-plate, iron trigger-guard, engraved horn ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap, and wooden ramrod with engraved horn tip
56 cm; 22 in barrel
with brass polygonal sighted barrel swamped at the muzzle, cut with very small decorative bands and rifled with eight grooves, iron tang, flat lock fitted with lightly chiselled wheel-bracket and brass bridle over the dog-spring, fruitwood full stock, fluted fore-end, the rearward portion of the stock incised with leaf ornament and hatched matted designs of scrolling foliage, decorated with a stag over the cheek-piece, the date incised beneath, inlaid with a pair of engraved horn rosette washers impaled by the lock side-nails, incised decorated thumb-rest, and the borders cut with both linear and wavy bands en suite with the barrel, fitted with patch-box cover (the veneered upper section missing), horn butt-plate, iron trigger-guard, engraved horn ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap, and wooden ramrod with engraved horn tip
56 cm; 22 in barrel
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A 26-BORE GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK RIFLED SPORTING CARBINE,
Estimate £2,500 - £3,000
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