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PROPERTY FROM A STYRIAN CASTLE<br />
482<br />
A FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN, CIRCA 1730, PROBABLY<br />
DUTCH<br />
with fine two-stage sighted barrel, chiselled in relief with<br />
mounted warriors in foliate frames involving grotesques,<br />
trophies-of-arms, and a reclining classical warrior at the<br />
base, all on a punched ground (the vent lining removed),<br />
engraved tang, rounded lock engraved in the manner of<br />
Jean Berain, decorated with a horned trumpeting devil on<br />
the tail and a female dragon beneath the pan, root walnut<br />
half-stock, carved with foliage about the barrel tang and the<br />
mounts (fore-end with a small crack), blued steel mounts<br />
including flat scrolling side-plate, butt-plate, moulded<br />
trigger-guard with acanthus terminal, knuckle-guard with<br />
moulded tang drawn-up to a baluster moulding with an<br />
acanthus terminal, a pair of moulded brass ramrod-pipes,<br />
and horn fore-end cap (the barrel and mounts finished)<br />
118.7cm; 46N in barrel<br />
£2000-3000<br />
482<br />
483<br />
483<br />
AN AUSTRIAN PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLE, CIRCA<br />
1760<br />
converted from flintlock, with octagonal blued swamped<br />
sighted barrel (back-sight removed), rifled with six grooves,<br />
slender rounded lock, figured walnut full stock lightly<br />
carved and incised with foliage about the barrel tang, over<br />
the fore-end and the butt, the latter with carved raised<br />
cheek-piece and patchbox fitted with sliding cover, brass<br />
mounts of shaped outline, including solid side-plate,<br />
wooden trigger-guard reinforced with a brass strip drawnout<br />
to a broad terminal, the heel of the butt with petalshaped<br />
cap, and three ramrod-pipes, and horn fore-end<br />
cap (ramrod missing); and A PERCUSSION SPORTING<br />
GUN BY J. SCHEMETYLER, CIRCA 1800, converted from<br />
flintlock, with three-stage sighted barrel stamped with a<br />
mark, L crowned, at the breech, the tang engraved ‘1’,<br />
signed border-engraved lock decorated with a garland<br />
beneath the bolster, figured walnut half-stock, raised cheekpiece,<br />
the fore-end stained in imitation of a horn cap, brass<br />
mounts comprising butt-plate of shaped outline engraved<br />
with the owner’s initials, wooden trigger-guard reinforced<br />
with a brass plate en suite with the butt-plate, and a pair of<br />
faceted ramrod-pipes (ramrod missing)<br />
101cm; 39N in barrel<br />
(2)<br />
£600-800<br />
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