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401<br />
A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE,<br />
MÜLLERBÜCHSE BY CHRISTOPH NEGELE, DATED 1687<br />
with octagonal swamped sighted barrel rifled with seven<br />
grooves and signed over the breech (rubbed, partly<br />
obscured), flat lock plate retained by two side nails, pierced<br />
wheel-cover, sliding pan-cover, pierced engraved dog, set<br />
trigger, figured walnut full stock carved with a raised<br />
moulding about the tang, raised cheek-piece decorated<br />
with a scroll of foliage terminating in a profile mask at the<br />
rear, steel mounts including trigger-guard with acanthus<br />
finial and butt-plate with tang of shaped outline, and<br />
contemporary steel ramrod (the steel parts pitted, cleaned<br />
throughout)<br />
83.5cm; 32P in barrel<br />
£1200-1800<br />
401<br />
402<br />
402<br />
A 22 BORE GERMAN FLINTLOCK WENDER RIFLE BY<br />
JAKUB HEILER, CIRCA 1740<br />
with two-stage tapering sighted barrels formed with a long<br />
flat, rifled with seven and six grooves respectively and<br />
signed on the upper, fitted with a brass facing plate at the<br />
breech and engraved with a panel of foliage on each side,<br />
bevelled lock engraved with a line around the border,<br />
figured walnut full stock carved with a raised foliate<br />
moulding about the tang, moulded over the fore-end,<br />
raised cheek-piece, and fluted sliding patchbox cover, steel<br />
mounts including solid side-plate decorated en suite with<br />
the lock, sliding trigger-guard releasing the barrels, butt<br />
plate with engraved tang of shaped outline, and a pair of<br />
sling swivels (later ramrod, the steel parts chemically<br />
cleaned)<br />
85cm; 33I in barrels<br />
£1800-2200<br />
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