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A German 25 Bore Wheel Lock Sporting Carbine, late 17th/early 18th Century
A German 25 Bore Wheel Lock Sporting Carbine, late 17th/early 18th Century
£4,325.00
Product Code
WRSP184
In stock
An Antique German 25 Bore Wheel Lock Sporting Carbine, late 17th/early 18th Century. With swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves, short plain tang, flat lock engraved with a bird amid foliage, domed brass wheel-cover engraved with a flower-head and foliage, sliding pan-cover and cock pierced and engraved as a monster-head, fruitwood full stock inlaid along both sides of the fore-stock with engraved staghorn or bone running hounds between scrollwork and ball-flowers, all within white staghorn or bone line borders, the butt inlaid en suite and involving a townscape inhabited by a boar on the hollowed cheek-piece, and with a further hound above the sliding patch-box, the latter (rear mount missing) with an engraved running hare in a landscape, iron trigger-guard indented for the fingers, horn ramrod-pipes and fore-end cap engraved with stylised ropework, dark horn butt-plate with iron button rest, adjustable set trigger, and later horn-tipped ramrod. Barrel length 63cm, overall length 97cm.
An Antique German 25 Bore Wheel Lock Sporting Carbine, late 17th/early 18th Century. With swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves, short plain tang, flat lock engraved with a bird amid foliage, domed brass wheel-cover engraved with a flower-head and foliage, sliding pan-cover and cock pierced and engraved as a monster-head, fruitwood full stock inlaid along both sides of the fore-stock with engraved staghorn or bone running hounds between scrollwork and ball-flowers, all within white staghorn or bone line borders, the butt inlaid en suite and involving a townscape inhabited by a boar on the hollowed cheek-piece, and with a further hound above the sliding patch-box, the latter (rear mount missing) with an engraved running hare in a landscape, iron trigger-guard indented for the fingers, horn ramrod-pipes and fore-end cap engraved with stylised ropework, dark horn butt-plate with iron button rest, adjustable set trigger, and later horn-tipped ramrod. Barrel length 63cm, overall length 97cm.
| Weight (kg) | 3.002 |
|---|---|
| Mechanism | Wheellock |
| License Type | No Licence Required |
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