Thomas Del Mar - Arms & Armour

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A NORTH GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE
(MÜLLERBÜCHSE) BY NICOLAUS COERS, BRAUNSWEIG,
CIRCA 1680
with octagonal sighted shortened barrel rifled with seven
narrow grooves, stamped with the letters ‘NK’ over the
breech, signed rounded lock fitted with internal wheel,
sliding pan-cover with button release and moulded dog,
figured walnut full stock carved with a raised moulding and
foliage behind the barrel tang, scrolls over the breech and
fluted over the butt, the latter with raised cheek-piece on
the left and fitted with carved sliding patchbox-cover on the
right, steel mounts comprising scrolling side-plate, triggerguard
with a bulbous finial at each end, butt-plate with
slender tang and moulded ramrod-pipe, and associated
horn-tipped wooden ramrod
41.2cm; 16B in barrel
The maker is presumably Niklaus Cordes (also recorded as
Kors and Curdes) active in Brunswick circa 1684.
£2500-3000
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A SOUTH GERMAN PERCUSSION OVER-AND-UNDER
SPORTING GUN BY F. HONOLD A ULM, CIRCA 1800
converted from flintlock, with two-stage tapering barrels,
the upper fitted with silver ‘Spider’ fore-sight and signed in
silver over the breech, border-engraved locks fitted with
gravity stops, figured walnut half-stock inlaid with pierced
bone plaques of shaped outline, chequered fore-end and
grip each studded with numerous silver nails, the butt
inlaid with silver wire filigree on both sides, the left with
raised cheek-piece and the right inlaid with a star in
contrasting pieces of horn and mother-of-pearl, wooden
trigger-guard studded with silver nails, and horn fore-end
cap (worn, ramrod missing)
81.7cm; 32D in barrels
£2500-3500
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