Thomas Del Mar - Arms & Armour

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AN AUSTRIAN PERCUSSION CAPE RIFLE BY JUST IN
FERLACH, CIRCA 1830
with blued octagonal sighted barrels, the left-hand barrel
rifled with seven grooves, inlaid with a gold line behind the
muzzles, a gold arrow beneath the fore-sight, signed in
gold on the rib and inlaid with two gold lines and scrolling
corn foliage, engraved breech and percussion bolsters,
engraved breech tang interrupted by a silver escutcheon
engraved with the owner’s initials, engraved flush-fitting
back-action locks decorated with a boar hunting scene in a
wooden landscape on one side and a waterfowling scene
on the other, set trigger for the rifled barrel, highly figured
walnut full stock (small cracks and chips), chequered foreend,
the grip carved with scale pattern and a bearded
demon mask, raised cheek-piece carved with scrolling
foliage and a leaping stag behind, engraved steel mounts
comprising trigger-guard decorated with a doe and a posy
of flowers forming the terminal (chipped), butt-plate
decorated with scrollwork involving a rabbit, three ramrodpipes,
and a pair of sling swivels, and horn fore-end cap
(ramrod missing)
76.7cm; 30D in barrels
£700-900
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AN AUSTRIAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN, CIRCA 1760
with Turkish blued twist barrel formed in two stages, fitted
with silver fore-sight framed by a gold cartouche, octagonal
breech encrusted with silver and gold beadwork,
cartouches and flowerheads, bevelled lock engraved with
trophies-of-arms (the cock missing its upper portion),
figured walnut full stock carved with strapwork about the
barrel tang, wooden trigger-guard, brass mounts of shaped
outline including solid side-plate and butt-plate, and horn
fore-end cap (ramrod missing)
72cm; 28G in barrel
£800-1000