Thomas Del Mar - Arms & Armour

476
A BAVARIAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY ANDREAS
GANS IN AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1740
with blued two-stage sighted barrel, stamped with a series
of decorative marks and the brass-lined barrelsmiths marks
over the breech (including Neue Støckel 422), signed
bevelled lock finely engraved with trophies-of-arms and a
cherub playing a harp beneath the pan, the cock engraved
with strapwork and chiselled with a serpent head beneath
the jaws, figured walnut full stock carved in relief with
rococo flowers and foliage behind the barrel tang, raised
cheek-piece carved en suite, brass mounts of shaped
outline, including two-piece side-plate and butt-plate,
wooden trigger-guard reinforced with brass, and three
brass ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped
wooden ramrod
87.7cm; 34I in barrel
The second mark on the breech, that of the maker’s name
rendered in the Spanish style, is not recorded in Støckel.
Two pairs of guns by this maker are preserved in the
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, inv. nrs.
13/781,783,785 and 791. See E.Schalkhauser 1988, pp.122-
123.
£800-1000
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A GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN, CIRCA 1730
with two-stage barrel stamped with a brass-lined
barrelsmith’s mark at the breech, in an oval three letters
above a bird within a cartouche (rubbed, fore-sight
removed), plain rounded lock, figured walnut half-stock
carved with rococo scrollwork about the barrel tang and
beneath the lock, carved wooden trigger-guard, and
decorated throughout with incised lines in imitation of
mounts, including a shaped outline on the spine of the butt
and a pair of wooden ramrod-pipes, steel sling-swivel, and
brass forward ramrod-pipe (ramrod replaced)
102.2cm; 40D in barrel
A very similar mark was on a pair of wheel-lock guns by
Heinrich Auer in Salzburg, sold in these rooms, 7th
December 2006, lot 378.
£500-600