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A .500 CALIBRE CONTINENTAL PERCUSSION CAPE RIFLE<br />
BY K.HOLLY IN GLATZ, CIRCA 1850<br />
with rebrowned sighted barrels, the right-hand barrel rifled<br />
with seven grooves, signed in gold on the rib and inlaid with a<br />
single gold line at the breeches (the right hand muzzle swollen<br />
from a previously blocked ball), engraved case-hardened<br />
breech chiselled with gold-eyed vultures about the bolsters<br />
and with a hound head profile medallion, engraved casehardened<br />
tang decorated with a doe, broad leaf foliage and<br />
with the owners initial, the letter T beneath a Baron’s cornet,<br />
flush-fitting locks signed in gold and engraved with a pair of<br />
foxes and a stag pursued by a hound on the respective sides,<br />
the tails decorated with foliage en suite with the tang, highly<br />
figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, raised cheek-piece,<br />
engraved steel mounts comprising trigger-guard decorated<br />
with a stag, butt-plate decorated with foliage, patchbox cover<br />
with a further stag in a landscape, three ramrod-pipes, the rear<br />
incorporating the fore-end cap, and steel sling swivel, fitted<br />
with an additional horn grip behind the trigger-guard, German<br />
silver barrel bolt escutcheons, and wooden ramrod with<br />
German silver tip, perhaps the original<br />
71cm; 28in barrels<br />
This maker appears to be unrecorded. Glatz is modern-day<br />
Klodzko in Poland, south-west of Warsaw.<br />
£400-500<br />
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A GERMAN PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLE BY GOLLNER<br />
IN SUHL, CIRCA 1820<br />
converted from flintlock, with rebrowned octagonal sighted<br />
barrel rifled with seven grooves, signed in silver partly<br />
enclosed by silver foliage over the breech and fitted with<br />
folding back-sight, stepped bevelled lock fitted with gravity<br />
stop, double set trigger, figured walnut full stock carved with a<br />
Taurus mask behind the barrel tang and with foliate mouldings<br />
behind the rear ramrod-pipe, raised cheek-piece decorated<br />
with a washing stag, sliding patch-box cover, moulded German<br />
silver mounts comprising pierced two-piece side-plate, triggerguard<br />
with with acanthus finial and butt-plate formed en suite,<br />
moulded ramrod-pipes, and with a portion of an earlier<br />
ramrod, vacant mother-of-pearl escutcheon<br />
63cm; 24N in barrel<br />
£350-450<br />
409<br />
A GERMAN PERCUSSION RIFLED SPORTING CARBINE,<br />
CIRCA 1840<br />
with octagonal sighted barrel rifled with six narrow grooves<br />
and inlaid with a pair of platinum lines at the breech, large<br />
rounded percussion bolster fitted with screw-in moulded<br />
nipple mount, flush-fitted back-action lock, double set<br />
trigger, figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, raised<br />
cheek-piece, steel mounts including scrolling trigger-guard<br />
(rear sling swivel missing), and original steel ramrod<br />
63.2cm; 24P in barrel<br />
£250-350
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