Thomas Del Mar - Arms & Armour

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A BAVARIAN FLINTLOCK RIFLED SPORTING CARBINE BY
ST. SCHUESTER IN NEUBERG, CIRCA 1730
with octagonal swamped sighted barrel rifled with seven
grooves, signed bevelled lock engraved with foliage,
double set trigger, figured walnut full stock cut with
acanthus about the barrel tang (cracks and repairs), carved
cheek-piece, sliding patch-box cover partly veneered in
horn, steel mounts including scrolling side-plate, triggerguard
with acanthus finial, and butt-plate with heel and
terminal en suite with the trigger-guard, and horn fore-end
cap (later ramrod)
49cm; 19G in barrel
£500-700
404
A D.B. FRENCH FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN, CIRCA 1790
with browned tapering barrels, fitted with blued fore-sight
seated on a gilt arrow, decorated with gilt ferns over the
breeches and inscribed ‘Giraud’ underneath, engraved
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case-hardened breech tang incorporating the back-sight,
engraved bevelled locks with semi-rainproof pans, sparsely
decorated with cornucopia and flowers, the steels engraved
en suite, finely carved figured walnut half-stock, decorated
with delicate scrolls of foliage about the tang, panels of
flowers over the fore-end and about the locks, chequered
fore-end and grip, the latter carved in the round and
terminating in a winged lion mask, raised cheek-piece (the
fore-end repaired), finely engraved case-hardened steel
mounts comprising steel trigger-guard with front bar
formed as a leaping hound and with urn-finial, butt-cap
engraved with a beadwork border and with bouquets, three
moulded ramrod-pipes, the rear decorated with a basket of
flowers, and a pair of sling swivels, vacant gold
escutcheon, and original horn-tipped baleen ramrod
84.8cm; 33G in barrels
Pierre Giraud (active 1777-1837) is recorded as a gunmaker,
barrelsmith and proof master of civilian firearms in St Etienne.
£1500-2000