A 20 BORE BAVARIAN FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE BY CHRISTOPH JOSEPH FREY IN MUNCHEN, CIRCA 1740 with b

A 20 BORE BAVARIAN FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE BY CHRISTOPH JOSEPH FREY IN MUNCHEN, CIRCA 1740 with blued two-stage barrel fitted with silver `spider` fore-sight, stamped with the gold-lined barrelsmith`s mark (Neue Støckel 397) and numbered `18` over the breech, scroll-engraved tang, signed engraved bevelled lock decorated with mounted hunters and hounds in pursuit of a stag, figured walnut half-stock carved with rococo scrolls about the tang (small cracks), brass mounts cast and chased in low relief, comprising pierced foliate side-plate, trigger-guard engraved with a bust medallion, butt-plate finely chased with a resting hunter and a stag on the tang, vacant escutcheon, a pair of ramrod-pipes, steel sling swivel, and horn fore-end cap (forward ramrod-pipe and ramrod missing) 112.4cm; 44 1/4in barrel