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Lot 317
Militaria : An assortment of cloth badges , comprising two Guards Armoured Division ( IV ) formation badges , British / Norwegian Naval badge , a National Smallbore Rifle Association Marksman 1960 badge and a Lincoln Centre Rifle Club badge CONDITION: Please Note - we do not make reference to the condition of lots within catalogue descriptions. We are however happy to provide additional information regarding the condition of items on request.
Lot 1071
Manner of R.W. Allen - Eleven watercolour views from a single sketchbook circa 1900 - Mauritius, 16.5 x 24 cm; Cascade de la liege Grand River south east, 22 x 14.5 cm; Road from Jameson Falls, 14.5 x 21 cm; Souillac, Gris Gris Bay, 16.5 x 24 cm; Mauritius, 15 x 17 cm; Gurmsin Bungalow, 25 x 17 cm; Bridge over Riviere la Chause, 22 x 15 cm; View from Monchoir Rouge, 19 x 22 cm; At Le Beduit, 25 x 17 cm; Bridge over Riviere la Chause, Malibourg, 17 x 24 cm; Mt Rempart and trois mamelles a candos from Rifle Range, Phoenix, 14 x 22 cm, all bear monogram AW (11)
Lot 1152
Manner of R.W. Allan - Various watercolours - Point d-Esmey, Maheloung, 17 x 25 cm; Artist by reef, Maheloung, 13 x 22 cm; Maine, River Noire, Mauritius, 15 x 22 cm; Gorge Tamarin, Mauritius, 17 x 24 cm; Birune la chaux, Maheloung, 17 x 25 cm; Bay blue deux, Cocos Island, 15 x 25 cm; Moka range, Cacoa, Mauritius, 17 x 25 cm; Tamarin falls, 25 x 17 cm; From the Dutch fort, Mauritius, 15 x 22 cm; From boat, Mauritius, 15 x 22 cm; Sacred bridge, Mikko, Japan, 20 x 20 cm; Path to rifle range, Mauritius, 22 x 14 cm, all watercolour (11)
Lot 562
Italian Torino Vetterli model 1878 bolt-action needle fire rifle, calibre 10.4mm, with leaf rear sight, four round box magazine, blade foresight and side bayonet mount, walnut stock with Torino stamp, date and no. AG 7641 on butt, together with another stamped cartouche of a hand, breech stamped - Torino and AG 7641, separate steel ramrod, 135cm overall length
Lot 562
Italian Torino Vetterli model 1878 bolt-action needle fire rifle, calibre 10.4mm, with leaf rear sight, four round box magazine, blade foresight and side bayonet mount, walnut stock with Torino stamp, date and no. AG 7641 on butt, together with another stamped cartouche of a hand, breech stamped - Torino and AG 7641, separate steel ramrod, 135cm overall length
Lot 238
TWO GERMAN OFFICER`S LONG WHEEL-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS, INTENDED FOR USE AS A PAIR, CIRCA 1640-50 with minor differences, with tapering barrels formed in two stages, the breeches each struck with three marks, one involving the initials KS (Neue Støckel 8337), the locks retained by three side-nails on white bone washers, each struck on the inside with a mark, IM, fitted with sliding pan-covers with button release, and one with the wheel retained by a small crescentic bracket (the other bracket missing, the pan release buttons not a pair), with ebonised wooden full stocks decorated about the barrel tangs and opposite the locks with carved designs of scrolling foliage in low relief on a contrasting stippled ground and picked-out with minute brass nails, flattened pommels each fitted with domed wooden cap decorated en suite with the stocks and bound by an iron band, with iron trigger-guards, ramrod-pipes and fore-end caps, and one pistol retaining its original iron-tipped ramrod 65.8 cm; 25 7/8 in: 65.5 cm; 25¾ in (2) The carved treatment of the stocks picked-out with brass nails is characteristic of the workshops of the Gsell family of gunmakers of Arzberg, Bavaria. Comparable examples include the stock of a wheel-lock rifle signed by Georg Gsell and dated 1649, in the former Imperial collection, Vienna (D291), and a pair of flintlock Wender guns in the armoury of the Princes von und zu Liechtenstein, Schloss Vaduz.
Lot 265
A FINE 23-BORE GERMAN (THURINGIAN) WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE, CIRCA 1660-70 built on an earlier swamped octagonal rifled barrel signed and dated "Friden Pucksen Hans Ruhr Coburgk (sic) 1650", struck with a mark towards the breech, decorated over the breech and about the sights with finely engraved bands of scrolls and flowers, the engraving about the back-sight also enclosing the barrelmaker`s monogram HR (Neue Støckel 953) and the back-sight formed with a single pierced shaped folding leaf, finely engraved flat lock decorated with a fanciful flower-filled landscape including a sportsman shooting a running stag, iron wheel-cover pierced and engraved with a rollwerk design carrying a Goddess mask and a pair of winged putti masks, fitted with sliding pan-cover with rosette button release and the dog decorated with a marine monster and a pierced dragon, walnut full stock inlaid over its entire length with running patterns of iron wire scrollwork heightened with minute iron nails and carrying a series of iron plaques finely engraved en suite with the barrel and the lock, including large flowerheads, a pair of monsters`head scrolls about the barrel tang, a crowned harpy opposite the lock, putto masks within complex enclosures of scrollwork both on the cheek-piece on the right-hand side of the butt, the rear portion of the stock additionally carved and pricked with small scrollwork designs in low relief and heightened with small iron nails, with thumb-rest and patch-box cover en suite, the latter inlaid with an engraved dragon plaque en suite with the dog, and fitted with iron butt-plate, pierced engraved iron trigger-guard, fore-end cap, and iron-capped ramrod (ramrod-pipe missing) 82cm; 32 ¼ in barrel Hans Ruhr is recorded in 1641 as Court Gunmaker (presumably to the court of Friedrich Wilhelm II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg) but without membership of the Gunmakers` Guild; Ruhr died in 1657. The predominant themes within the engraved and inlaid decoration (the Thuringian hunting subject aside) are closely inspired by the respective engravings of the Paris gunmaker François Marcou and those of the engraver C. Jacquinet , the latter after the original designs of the royal gunmakers Thuraine and Le Hollandois. The title page of Marcou`s series of 16 engravings is dated 1657, the Thuraine and Le Hollandois engravings were possibly first published about this time also, prior to the known edition dated 1660. See Lenk 1965, p. 85 and Grancsay 1970, pp. 9-10
Lot 266
A FINE 26-BORE GERMAN (THURINGIAN) WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE CIRCA, 1660-70 built on an earlier rifled swamped octagonal barrel signed and dated "Friden Pücksen Hans Ruhr Coburgk (sic) 1650", decorated with finely engraved bands of flowers and scrolls at the breech and about both the fore-sight and the back-sight, the engraving about the back-sight also enclosing the engraved maker`s monogram HR (Neue Støckel 953) and the back-sight formed with a single pierced shaped folding leaf, finely engraved flat lock decorated with a fanciful flower-filled landscape including a sportsman shooting a stag, fitted with iron wheel-cover pierced and engraved with a rollwerk design issuant from a grotesque mask and carrying a pair of winged putti masks, sliding pan-cover with rosette button release, and the dog decorated with a marine monster and a pierced dragon, walnut full stock inlaid over its entire length with running patterns of brass wire scrollwork heightened with minute brass nails, carrying a series of brass plaques finely engraved en suite with the barrel and the lock, including large flowerheads, a pair of monsters`head scrolls about the barrel tang, a stag-shooting scene opposite the lock, the mounted figure of a general on the cheek-piece and a boar-hunting vignette on the opposite side, the rear portion of the stock additionally carved and pricked with small scrollwork designs in low relief and picked-out in small brass nails, the patch-box cover carved and inlaid en suite, and fitted with brass butt-plate, pierced engraved iron trigger-guard, and engraved brass ramrod-pipe (the fore-end repaired at the muzzle, the fore-end cap and ramrod missing) 81.9 cm; 32¼ in barrel Hans Ruhr is recorded in 1641 as Court Gunmaker (presumably to the court of Friedrich Wilhelm II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg) but without membership of the Gunmakers` Guild; Ruhr died in 1657. The predominant themes within the engraved and inlaid decoration (the Thuringian hunting subjects aside) are closely inspired by the respective engravings of the Paris gunmaker François Marcou and the engraver C.Jacquinet, the latter after the original designs of the royal gunmakers Thuraine and Le Hollandois. The title page of Marcou`s series of 16 engravings is dated 1657, the Thuraine and Le Hollandois engravings were possibly first published about this time also, prior to the known edition dated 1660. See Lenk 1965, p.85 and Grancsay 1970, pp.9-10
Lot 270
A RARE GERMAN SMALL WHEEL-LOCK RIFLE BUILT FOR A CHILD, MID-17TH CENTURY with octagonal sighted barrel lightly swamped towards the muzzle and rifled with eight grooves, plain flat lock fitted with external wheel retained by a chamfered bracket, sliding pan-cover and the dog engraved with a marine monster, wooden full stock, fluted fore-end, the butt with cheek-piece inset with a vacant mother-of-pearl shield and fitted with sliding patch-box cover, horn butt-plate and fore-end cap, and iron trigger-guard (fore-end chipped on one side towards the muzzle, the ramrod-pipe and ramrod missing, covered in old varnish throughout). 24.1 cm; 9½ in barrel: 40.6 cm; 16 in overall
Lot 271
A RARE 87-BORE GERMAN SMALL WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING CARBINE MADE FOR A BOY, DATED 1649 with swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves, engraved with decorative bands over the breech and the muzzle, struck with the date "1649" and with the barrelmaker`s initials "H*F", flat lock fitted with sliding pan-cover, wooden full stock decorated over its rear half with a series of carved expanded flowerheads and fluted mouldings with punched ornament along the edges, fluted fore-end, the butt with carved cheek-piece, sliding patch-box cover carved with a rosette, and fitted with horn butt-plate, iron trigger-guard, horn fore-end cap and wooden ramrod (the fore-end chipped along its upper edge on one side towards the muzzle, the ramrod-pipe missing) 50.3 cm; 19¾ in barrel, 69.9 cm; 27½ in overall The small proportions of this rifle are in keeping with a child of ten years of age or less. Toys aside, very few fully functioning wheel-lock firearms were made for children; the overwhelming majority of small firearms intended specifically for the use of children are almost entirely limited to the flintlock period and later. See Clifford and Watts 2003, pp.32-3,37,40-41
Lot 273
A RARE AND ELEGANTLY PROPORTIONED SMALL-BORE GERMAN FLINTLOCK RIFLE FOR A LADY, BUILT ON AN EARLIER BARREL MADE FOR MARIA AMALIA, LANDGRAVINE ZU HESSE-KASSEL, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY with swamped octagonal barrel, the breech inlaid with the silver inscription "Maria . Amalia. Landg. Zu. Hessen. 1674. Geb. V. Cvrland.", inlaid with a silver canopy of scrolls and pellets over a silver crowned device flanked by crowned lions, the latter possibly the arms of the Duchy of Courland, the breech inlaid in silver at its base with cabled lines framing an abbreviated inscription "Mi Et Av" over the letters "C A N", the muzzle decorated with a further band of silver scrollwork, rifled with six grooves and fitted with silver fore-sight and silver back-sight with chiselled finial, the barrel tang engraved with a mark, with bevelled plain lock, select quality figured walnut stock finely carved with a series of leaf and scrollwork mouldings in low relief over its rear half, the butt with raised cheek-piece decorated with trails of delicate scrolls at either end, fitted with sliding patch-box cover carved en suite, full brass mounts decorated in low relief in the Parisian taste, comprising butt-plate and trigger-guard each engraved with an interlaced scrollwork pattern and with moulded acanthus finials en suite with the stock, side-plate formed as a pierced design of scrolling leaves, monsters` heads and a grotesque mask, three faceted ramrod-pipes, escutcheon formed as a vacant cartouche, horn fore-end cap, and retaining its original iron ramrod, detached worm and sling-swivel (the rear swivel missing) 71 cm; 28 in barrel Princess Maria Amalia of Courland (1653-1711) was born in the Baltic city of Mitau (now Jelgava in Latvia) within the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia. She was married to her cousin Carl I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel in May 1673. The marmor fountain in the Karlsaue Park in Kassel includes a medallion depicting the Landgravine sculpted by Pierre Etienne Monnot
Lot 274
A FINE 33-BORE DANISH FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE, CIRCA 1690 with octagonal sighted barrel swamped at the muzzle, struck with a halberdier mark three times on the breech (Neue Støckel 5067), rifled with eight narrow grooves and fitted with chiselled back-sight formed with a single folding leaf, rounded lock decorated with wavy borders chiselled in relief, a horned demon mask cut in relief on the tail, and the cock and the steel with matching chiselled borders enclosing chiselled designs of scrollwork, figured walnut full stock carved over its length with elaborate relief mouldings and acanthus ornament, the fore-end with carved wavy borders en suite with the lock, with scrollwork patterns also in relief about the barrel tang and the ramrod-pipe, elaborately carved raised cheek-piece, and fitted with sliding patch-box cover carved en suite, full iron mounts chiselled in relief after the Parisian fashion, comprising butt-plate with the upper tang formed as a serpent giving issue to a leafy scrollwork pattern, pierced side-plate formed as a serpent entwined with scrolls, trigger-guard cut with a monster`s head spur and with pierced acanthus finials en suite with the stock, three ramrod-pipes of pronounced baluster shape, and the escutcheon decorated with a frame of pieced scrolls and marine monsters and surmounted by a demon mask, with trigger-plate fitted with sliding safety-catch chiselled in the form of a domed grotesque mask, moulded iron fore-end cap, and original iron-capped wooden ramrod 89 cm; 35 in barrel The robust interpretation of the Paris-inspired chiselled and carved decoration is characteristic of Danish gunmakers of the period. The halberdier marks are very similar to those stamped on the barrels of late 17th century firearms by the leading Copenhagen makers Matthias Kalthoff and Paul Nielsen Normann (Normand); see Smith 1938, cat. nos. 100/101, pp. 124-5 and cat. no.185, p. 71 respectively.
Lot 277
A 100-BORE SILESIAN WHEEL-LOCK BIRDING RIFLE (TSCHINKE), CIRCA 1630-50 with slender swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with six grooves, decorated with punched and engraved panels of scrolling foliage at both ends and at the median, tubular back-sight, iron lock decorated en suite with the barrel, fitted with matching iron bridles over the mainspring and the dog-spring, the former impaled by a button trigger, arched iron wheel-bracket, sliding pan-cover with button release, and the dog engraved with scrolling leafy tendrils and both grotesque and demonic profile masks, slender fruitwood full stock inlaid over its length with a series of engraved horn plaques, involving ballflowers, rosettes and elongated symmetrical designs all framed by pairs of horn pellets, the butt inlaid additionally with larger plaques including, on respective sides, a bird-of-prey and a goose caught by a fox, each within a distinctive linear framework of scrolls on a ground of pellets, the entire inlaid design arranged within horn segmental lines, fitted with patch-box cover decorated en suite, iron trigger-guard, engraved horn fore-end cap, and the barrel and the lock each with traces of original gilding (pieces of inlay missing, the butt-plate, the ramrod-pipe and the ramrod missing also) 99.6 cm; 39 ¼ in barrel A Tschinke with a closely related inlaid stock made within the period 1624-47 is preserved in the Veste Coburg (Inv. Nr. IV E 150): see Kruczek 2001, no. 125, p.115
Lot 278
A RARE 80-BORE GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE STOCKED IN THE MANNER OF DER MEISTER DER TIERKOPFRANKE , STOCKMAKER`S INITIALS MS, SIGNED MICHAEL STADT, DATED 1649 with swamped octagonal sighted barrel with octagonal bore cut with eight very narrow grooves, signed "Michael Stadt Anno 1649", plain flat lock retained by a pair of side-nails on engraved mother-of-pearl rosette washers, fruitwood full stock struck with the stockmaker`s initials MS in a small circular stamp behind the barrel tang, with carved fluted fore-end decorated with a leafy branch in low relief within a stippled panel behind the ramrod aperture, the rear portion of the stock similarly carved with flowering scrolling tendrils and other subjects all closely characteristic of this stockmaker and all in low relief on a stippled ground within an arrangement of linear panels, including a stag leaping through monsters`head scrollwork opposite the lock, the cheek-piece decorated with scrollwork emerging from a squid-like monster and from a harpy respectively at either end, framing a raised cartouche inlaid with engraved mother-of-pearl plaques in the form of the Roman Goddess Fortuna flanked by parrots perched within scrolling horn tendrils and pellets, the underside pierced with a water-drain overlaid with a pierced mother-of-pearl plaque encircled by a radiating design of horn pellets, decorated over the right-hand side of the butt with an elongated scrollwork design issuant from a monster`s head and involving large compound leaves and flowers, the patch-box cover decorated en suite, with horn butt-plate and fore-end cap, and iron trigger-guard (three pieces of inlay, the ramrod-pipe and the ramrod all missing) 79 cm; 31 in barrel Der Meister der Tierkopfranke (The Master of the Animal-Head Scroll, or Tendril) is so-called because of his unfailing characteristic use of animals` and monsters` heads to form the terminals to his distinctive scrollwork designs; he is to date unidentified by name: see Hayward, Volume I 1965, pp.194-6. Of the recorded gun and pistol stocks attributed to this maker, the present example, hitherto unrecorded, would appear to be the only example bearing a maker`s stamp involving initials which may possibly lead to the identification of this stockmaker; the gun in the Neuen Burg in Vienna (D 104) with its stock marked HN having been subsequently discounted by Schedelmann. The initials MS are almost certainly not those of Michael Stadt, the gunmaker to whom the stock would have been supplied for setting-up. Stadt, believed to be an Innsbruck maker, was probably hofbefreit (officially favoured at the Imperial Court); a rifle made by Matthias Stadt in 1674, to whom he was certainly related, bears the arms of the Emperor Leopold I (sold Christie`s, 15 December 1982, lot 103). Hans Schedelmann had suggested that this master stockmaker was established in Vienna from circa 1620-50 on the basis of the large proportion of his stocks preserved within the former Imperial Court Gunroom (Hofgewehrkammer). Schedelmann further supposes that many of his other works now scattered worldwide were originally commissioned directly for the Court or executed for firearms destined for it. He lists fifty-one works attributed to this master stockmaker, some mounted on firearms dated within the period 1624-53; a small number of further examples have been recorded subsequently: see Schedelmann 1973 pp.180-195. A pair of wheel-lock pistols also attributed to this stockmaker were included in the first sale of arms and armour from the collection of Karsten Klingbeil, Pierre Bergé & Hermann Historica, Brussels, December 13, 2011, lot 150, sold € 26,250.
Lot 279
A 31-BORE GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE, THE STOCK WITH MAKER`S INITIALS MS AND FINELY INLAID WITH HUNTING SUBJECTS AFTER JAN VAN DER STRAAT, CIRCA 1590-1600 with octagonal sighted barrel swamped at the muzzle, rifled with six grooves and the breech cut with the conjoined letters HB, flat lock struck with a shield-shaped mark, a pair of crossed pistols with three clusters of ball (similar to Neue Støckel 5733), and fitted with wheel-bracket pierced with a chamfered heart-shaped ring and sliding pan-cover with button release, fruitwood full stock profusely decorated over its entire length with finely engraved horn plaques, formed as a series of hunting subjects involving figures in contemporary dress, both mounted and on foot, including a continuous woodland frieze inhabited by hares, boar, deer and foxes all pursued by hounds along the length of the fore-end on both sides, the scene on the right-hand side also involving a camel and that on the left expanded opposite the lock to include a horseman killing a boar, the butt decorated over the full length of the underside with a series of pierced rollwerk plaques involving grotesque masks and dogs` heads, the pierced figures of a huntsman and of a falconer, birds-of-prey, and a vignette involving a hare and a galloping stallion, the upper surfaces of the butt decorated with the hunting friezes continued in two panels, one involving a lion and a bear, inlaid with an elaborate bear-hunting scene over the cheek-piece, a pair of gamebird plaques inlaid about the barrel tang and enclosing a smaller plaque engraved with the stockmaker`s initials "M.S", with patch-box cover veneered in horn and engraved with deer and a hare pursued by hounds (the rear plate missing), and the entire inlaid scheme arranged within horn segmental lines, fitted with iron trigger-guard, a horn plaque over the ramrod aperture, and this, together with the horn ramrod-pipe and the fore-end cap, engraved with scrollwork patterns en suite with the plaques at the rear borders (the butt-plate undecorated, probably replaced, the ramrod missing). 87 cm; 34¼ in barrel The inlaid hunting subjects are closely inspired by the engravings of the Flemish artist Jan van der Straat, called Stradanus (1523-1605): the horses, hounds and the other animals conspicuously so. While none of the inlaid scenes are taken directly from the engravings it is nonetheless clear that the stockmaker has adapted some of the original scenes and many of the individual engraved subjects to suit his purposes, the bear-hunting scene on the cheek-piece for example draws on an engraved scene involving the killing of a stag. The van der Straat engravings also notably included exotic beasts, specifically the bears, camels and lions present on this stock. After 1567 van der Straat executed his series of hunting-themed designs for tapestries intended for the Villa Poggio a Caiano of Cosimo I de`Medici, Grand duke of Tuscany; engravings of these were published circa 1574-76. Two further series of his hunting engravings (44 and 61 prints respectively) were first published in 1578, with subsequent editions widely circulated.
Lot 281
A RARE 17-BORE GERMAN SNAP-MATCHLOCK TARGET RIFLE, DATED 1685 with heavy swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves, the breech struck with an axe mark (Neue Støckel 6126 for similar, possibly Suhl) and with maker`s mark, in a shield, ME, a saltire between, large flat lock fitted with pivoted pan-cover and the match-holder moving on an internal sliding long cam (the sear and one side-nail each missing), walnut full stock, fluted fore-end incised with a tongues-of-flame pattern at the rear, the rearward portion inlaid with engraved bone plaques, including a pair of rosettes impaled by the side-nails, a further pair of rosette plaques about the barrel tang, the butt inlaid with rosettes and pellets, with carved cheek-piece decorated with a plaque engraved with a fox, inlaid over the comb with a further plaque engraved with the date "1685", thumb-rest, sliding patch-box cover carved with a running fox, iron trigger-guard, engraved bone ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod (the stock with worm damage at the fore-end and in several places over the butt, the toe of the butt shaved, the butt-plate missing) 115.5 cm; 45½ in barrel This is an unusually late example of a European snap-matchlock not intended for military use.
Lot 284
A 13-BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE, GERMAN OR LIÈGEOIS, EARLY 18TH CENTURY with two-stage barrel formed with sighting flat, the rear section shaped to form alternate flat planes decorated with chiselled leaf terminals, cut with polygroove rifled bore, fitted with engraved gilt-bronze fore-sight and the tang grooved for sighting, bronze lock with strongly bevelled edges and beadwork patterns engraved about both the outer and the subsidiary borders, the cock and the steel engraved en suite, figured walnut full stock carved with a series of relief mouldings embellished in part with leaf ornament, full gilt-bronze mounts cast in low relief, the butt-plate and the trigger-guard decorated with acanthus leaf ornament, the side-plate decorated with a pierced design of scrolls and acanthus leaves, three ramrod-pipes decorated with faceted mouldings, the escutcheon en suite with the butt-plate, and original bronze-capped wooden ramrod (the fore-end with small cracks on one side towards the muzzle) 108 cm; 42½ in barrel
Lot 286
A RARE 33-BORE GERMAN COMBINED MATCHLOCK AND SELF-SPANNING WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE, CIRCA 1660-70 with octagonal sighted barrel swamped at the muzzle and rifled with eight grooves, earlier large flat lock engraved with scrollwork and a flowering tendril at the rear, both the internal and the external component parts finely engraved, including the internal spindle-bridle decorated with a demon mask emerging from an acanthus pattern and the bridle over the spanning mechanism decorated with a flowering leafy branch, the external iron wheel-cover pierced and engraved with opposing pairs of human grotesques, with engraved sliding pan-cover with button release, the dog decorated with three monsters, a grotesque and a demon mask, the head of the match-holder formed as a monster`s head, the latter released by a moulded sliding bar engaging a pivot safety, and the external springs for the dog, the match-holder and the safety-catch all cut with matching fluted leaf-shaped finials, with walnut full stock, fluted fore-end, the rear portion decorated with incised hatched designs of scrollwork and foliage involving inlaid engraved horn rosettes, carved cheek-piece, patch-box cover decorated en suite (its base plate missing), horn butt-plate, iron trigger-guard with fluted finial en suite with the lock components, engraved horn ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap, and wooden ramrod (the sear-spring unseated, the butt-plate button finial and the ramrod tip each missing, discoloured varnish throughout) 98.8 cm; 38 7/8 in barrel The lock dates from circa 1650-55, it compares closely with another in this collection which is dated 1653 and which is undoubtedly from by the same workshop. The lock is without question the original on which this rifle was built
Lot 287
AN UNUSUAL 24-BORE GERMAN RIFLE WITH EARLY FLINTLOCK MECHANISM OPERATING ON A TWO-PART LATERAL SEAR, CIRCA 1660-70 with swamped octagonal sighted barrel, the upper plane narrowed to form a near "Hog`s back", the breech grooved for sighting and with a wheel mark and the maker`s mark each struck twice upon inlaid brass panels, the latter involving the initials I.S over a crossed pair of pistols, and the bore cut with eight grooves, with flat lock with bevelled edges and recessed tail, fitted with pierced flat cock acting on a two-part lateral sear, dog safety held clear at full cock by a very small spring-stud protruding through the lock-plate, and swing-out safety-steel, walnut full stock decorated about the barrel tang with a fluted pattern tapering to the rear, carved with cusped ornament opposite the lock and inset with horn rosette washers for the side-nails, paddle-shaped butt stamped and incised with foliage about the patch-box, the latter with sliding walnut cover, iron trigger-guard, engraved horn ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap, and brass-capped ramrod (back-sight missing, the butt wormed, the butt-plate removed, the ramrod incomplete) 97.8 cm; 38½ in barrel Cf. a lock of similar construction, signed Munier a Geneve, on a gun in Skokloster castle, Sweden (No. W 295): see Hoff 1969, pp.300-302, pls. 226-7. For commentary on early English flintlocks also operating on this unusual type of lateral or horizontal sear see Richardson and Rimer 2012, pp.220, lock type 5, illustrated p. 224. Also see Rimer 2014, p.57, pls. 5a-b.
Lot 288
A FINE 30-BORE WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE, BOHEMIAN OR GERMAN, CIRCA 1680 with swamped octagonal sighted barrel decorated with an engraved band of leaves and monsters together with matted panels of scrolling foliage chiselled at the base of the breech, with further flowers and leaves engraved about the muzzle, a garland engraved over the muzzle face and the breech struck with a mark, engraved barrel tang, flat lock engraved with a bold scrolling pattern of flowers and leafy branches on a contrasting hatched ground, pierced engraved wheel-cover involving addorsed leaping stags, sliding pan-cover with engraved release button and the dog and its spring bridle each pierced and engraved with marine monsters, figured walnut full stock decorated over its rear half with a series of bold scrollwork mouldings carved in relief, the butt with carved thumb-rest and carved patch-box cover decorated with a demon mask within a scrollwork panel, fluted fore-end, iron mounts comprising plain butt-plate, ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap, engraved trigger-guard, and the trigger-guard and the trigger-plate each with engraved leaf finials (the back-sight and the ramrod each missing) 85 cm; 33½ in barrel. The central detail of the maker`s mark on the breech is indistinct but the mark as a whole closely resembles the cartouche-shaped marks used by some of the leading Prague gunmakers in the second half of the 17th century
Lot 289
A 50-BORE GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK RIFLE, CIRCA 1610-20 with octagonal sighted barrel with swamped muzzle of "Hog`s back" form, rifled with seven very narrow grooves and struck with a mark on the lower side of the breech (indistinct), flat lock fitted with siding pan-cover with release button faced with a brass lion mask cast in relief, and domed gilt-brass wheel-cover engraved with the owner`s quartered arms within a scrolling design of flowers (the internal wheel-sear and one side-nail each missing), wooden full stock inlaid with a finely engraved series of staghorn plaques, including rollwerk designs of leaves and fruit about the barrel tang, at the base of the cheek-piece and over the upper surface of the butt, the latter also involving a demon mask, with a pair of inlaid decorated plaques impaled by the lock side-nails, horn rosettes impaled by the barrel-pins and the butt sparsely inlaid with horn segmental lines, fitted with plain sliding patch-box cover, horn butt-plate, horn ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap each engraved en suite with the inlay on the stock, and iron trigger-guard (ramrod missing). 77.5 cm; 29¾ in barrel
Lot 292
A RARE 50-BORE GERMAN BREECH-LOADING FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE WITH REPEATING MAGAZINE ACTION BUILT ON THE LORENZONI PRINCIPLE, BY JOHANN JACOB FREY, AUGSBURG, DATED 1710 with swamped octagonal sighted turn-off barrel stamped with both the maker`s signature and the date and rifled with seven grooves, the action frame with raised sighting groove and shaped to house a brass cylindrical breech-block, the latter with separate chambers for powder and ball, inscribed "Augspurg" in stamped letters on its outer face, rotating on the movement of a lever fitted on the left, the lever engraved with a circular garland of foliage about its base and held externally in the rearward half-cock position by a sickle-shaped spring, the right-hand axis of the breech-block also forming a rotary priming-pan fed by the priming-magazine fitted in front of the cock, the action cocked by the rearward rotation of the breech-block and the corresponding action of a stop fitted on the outer face of the breech-block, the stop acting against a sliding cam fitted to the inner side of the cock, and the trigger off-set to the right, with rounded back-action lock engraved with an Italianate scrollwork pattern involving a plaque signed by the maker and supported by a putto, the cock and the steel chiselled in low relief and the priming-magazine closed by a hinged cover, wooden butt and fore-end each carved with decorative mouldings in low relief, the butt with separate tubular magazines for powder and ball each closed by a threaded cap covered in turn by the hinged lower portion of the butt-plate, the fore-end carved with scrolling tendrils about the ramrod-pipe and fitted with an iron cap over the base, and with trigger-guard with chiselled acanthus finials and three moulded baluster ramrod-pipes (the steel-spring disengaged, the lower part or the spring perhaps broken, the butt cracked behind the upper action-tang, the plate supporting the butt-trap catch chipped on one side, ramrod missing) 85 cm; 33½ in barrel This complex but highly successful mechanism is popularly held to be the invention of the celebrated Florentine gunmaker Michele Lorenzoni but this probably unlikely. It is more likely that Lorenzoni merely perfected the system which he then used subsequently with three types of repeating magazine, apparently of his own invention. The present German example follows the Lorenzoni system "a tutto indietro", with the magazines at the rear. An example made by Giacomo Berselli of Bologna in the late 1660`s or early `70`s is in the Musée de l`Armée, Paris. Pistols and longarms built on this principle were also popular in England from the late 17thcentury, and in Germany, particularly from Augsburg workshops, up until circa 1740-50. For a highly detailed and illustrated account of the construction and working of the action see Hoopes 1973, pp. 216-25.
Lot 295
A .375 CALIBRE GERMAN PERCUSSION TARGET RIFLE BY C. GREULING IN ESSLINGEN, CIRCA 1860 with blued octagonal barrel with countersunk muzzle, rifled with eight shallow grooves, signed in gold, inscribed "Guss Stahl" in gold and inlaid with a gold line in front of the breech, fitted with blued back-sight (fore-sight missing), engraved breech, the breech tang engraved en suite and fitted with adjustable aperture sight, engraved lock decorated with a stag, the hammer decorated with a marine monster, figured pale walnut full stock, the butt of so-called Schützen type with prominent cheek-piece and chequered grip, full iron mounts of characteristic type engraved en suite with both the breech tang and the lock, including side-plate and three ramrod-pipes, with three pairs of German silver ovals impaled by the barrel bolts, double set trigger, sling-swivels, horn fore-end cap, and some original finish (ramrod missing) 81.5 cm; 32 1/8 in barrel
Lot 296
A 28-BORE BAVARIAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE BY CHRISTIAN HAMAN, ONOLLZBACH (ANSBACH), DATED 1710 with swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, signed "Iohann Martin Stein" together with the date "1710", engraved bevelled lock decorated with the figure of Diana, signed "Christian Haman" beneath the pan and inscribed "Onollzbach" behind the cock, carved moulded figured walnut full stock, the butt with raised cheek-piece and patch-box fitted with sliding cover veneered in carved rootwood, full iron mounts chiselled in low relief, including side-plate pierced with scrolling foliage and involving a half-figure and a monster`s head, trigger-guard with acanthus finials, a pair of faceted moulded ramrod-pipes engraved with leaf patterns, escutcheon pierced with scrollwork supported by a pair of grotesque half-figures, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod (the trigger mechanism incomplete) 81.3 cm; 32 in barrel
Lot 297
A FINE 42-BORE BOHEMIAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE BY ANDREE SIGL (SIEGEL) A SCHLACKENW(ERTH), CIRCA 1725-30 with lightly swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, the breech signed "Andree Sigl a Schlackenw", struck with the maker`s brass-lined stamp (Neue Støckel 1025) and decorated with the engraved figure of Diana standing within an elaborate scrollwork frame over a raised moulding at the rear, engraved barrel tang, bevelled lock engraved with a design of strapwork scrolls involving a monster`s head, the cock and the steel en suite and each partly chiselled in low relief, figured walnut full stock carved with a series of decorated mouldings in low relief, including delicate acanthus volutes about the ramrod-pipe, the butt with raised carved cheek-piece, full brass mounts cast in low relief, the butt-plate cast with the monogrammed initials "LA" issuant from a demon`s mouth and additionally signed "A Sigl" on a scroll suspended from a half-figure emerging from an engraved scrollwork pattern, the side-plate cast with a pierced scrollwork pattern en suite with the lock and involving both a monster`s head and a demon mask, with three faceted ramrod-pipes, escutcheon cast with a pierced scrollwork design carrying an engraved classical bust, horn fore-end cap, and original wooden ramrod (the back-sight leaf and the ramrod tip each missing) 82 cm; 32¼ in barrel Andreas Michael Siegel is recorded working over the period 1680-1730. In 1680 he was apprenticed in Vienna, thereafter he worked in Schlackenwerth (now Ostrov). In 1689 Siegel was appointed gunmaker to the Margrave of Baden.
Lot 305
A 19-BORE GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE, DATED 1650 with octagonal sighted barrel lightly swamped at the muzzle, rifled with eight grooves, dated in small stamped numerals on the breech and struck twice with maker`s mark of Michael Schintzel of Dessau (Neue Støckel 8216), flat lock fitted with wheel-cover, sliding pan-cover and the dog pierced and engraved with a pair of monsters` heads, fruitwood full stock inlaid with a series of natural staghorn roundels impaled by the barrel-pins and the side-nails, the butt with carved cheek-piece with a matching staghorn plaque overlaid at its base, thumb-rest, sliding patch-box cover veneered in natural staghorn, the butt-plate and fore-end cap en suite, iron trigger-guard, and original ramrod 81.9 cm; 32¼ in barrel
Lot 316
A 36-BORE BAVARIAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE BY DANIEL ECK (OF NÖRDLINGEN), CIRCA 1720 with swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves and signed "D: EcK", the lock with bevelled forward edges and finely engraved with a stag-shooting vignette, and the tail rounded and decorated with a game dog inhabiting a strapwork design (one side-nail missing), figured walnut full stock carved with decorative mouldings in low relief, the butt with cheek-piece carved with a voluted leaf design at the rear and fitted with sliding patch-box cover, full iron mounts, comprising butt-plate with its tang engraved with a strapwork and acanthus leaf pattern, side-plate pierced and chiselled with interlaced scrollwork, trigger-guard with chiselled moulded finials, a pair of moulded faceted ramrod-pipes and chiselled scrollwork escutcheon, horn fore-end cap, and iron-tipped wooden ramrod 77.7 cm; 30 5/8 in barrel
Lot 318
A 21-BORE GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE, DATED 1680 with swamped octagonal barrel decorated with chiselled and engraved scrolling tendrils over the breech, an engraved framework of scrolls enclosing the fore-sight, the date "1680" stamped in small numerals interrupted by the barrelmaker`s mark, VB, a flower beneath (Neue Støckel 4628), the bore cut with eight grooves and fitted with back-sight with one folding leaf, rounded lock signed with the maker`s initials "IOF" engraved beneath the steel-spring and chiselled and engraved en suite with the breech, the cock also decorated with a matching tendril design and the lip of the pan cut with two demon masks, figured walnut full stock carved with scrolling tendril mouldings in low relief about the barrel tang and behind the ramrod-pipe, the latter involving monsters` head terminals, the butt with raised cheek-piece and patch-box with sliding cover carved with scrolls and leaves, full iron mounts chiselled in low relief, the butt-plate tang formed as a serpent, the side-plate decorated with a pierced design of monsters` head scrollwork, the trigger-guard formed with a pierced scrollwork finial and fitted with three moulded baluster-shaped ramrod-pipes, the fore-end bound with an iron band below the muzzle, with pierced chiselled escutcheon surmounted by a coronet, and wooden ramrod (the fore-end cracked in front of both the lock and the side-plate and with the upper edges chipped on both sides towards the rear, ramrod associated) 100.3 cm; 39½ in barrel
Lot 320
A 25-BORE GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE BY SAMUEL CRAMER, DATED 1739 with swamped octagonal barrel signed and dated around the face of the muzzle, the entire remaining surfaces with a minutely punched matted finish, silver fore-sight, iron back-sight, the tang engraved with a stag and a demon mask, rounded lock signed on a scroll engraved beneath the pan, figured walnut full stock carved with a series of acanthus leaf mouldings in low relief about the barrel tang, the lock and the mounts, the butt carved en suite on both sides and about the base of the comb, the cheek-piece inset with a gilt-brass roundel engraved with the owner`s arms, two lions passant guardant on a mantled shield with crests, the reverse side fitted with carved sliding patch-box cover inset with a gilt-brass plaque engraved with a stag, full gilt-brass mounts cast in low relief, the butt-plate engraved with classical hunting trophies, a Diana bust and a demon mask, with side-plate formed as a pierced design of strapwork and scrolls involving a stag pursued by hounds, three faceted ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, sling-swivels, silver escutcheon involving the crown of a ducal heir with lion supporters on a pierced scrollwork base, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod (the butt with a small crack on one side) 77.2 cm; 30 3/8 in barrel The maker is hitherto unrecorded but is possibly a member of the Kramer family of gunmakers of Hofgeismar in northern Hesse
Lot 368
A GEORGIAN OFFICER`S SWORD, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY FOR A SCOTTISH RIFLE OFFICER with curved blade double-edged towards the point, formed with a broad long fuller on each face, etched with bold scrolls of foliage, flowers and a trophy-of-arms on one face and with the crowned Royal cypher on the other, gilt-brass hilt comprising boatshell guard, stirrup knuckle-bow and the grip bound with plaited silver wire 76 cm; 30 in blade
Lot 427
A PINCER BULLET MOULD AND A BRASS BULLET MOULD FOR .577 CALIBRE JACOB`S RIFLE BULLETS, CIRCA 1860 the first of blued steel, stamped `Swinburn Birmingham` and with blued spru-cutter stamped `.567-628`; and the second of brass, with turned wooden handle and steel spru-cutter the first 25.5 cm; 10 in overall (2)
Lot 436
A RARE CASED 32 BORE ADAMS PATENT DOUBLE ACTION PERCUSSION REVOLVING RIFLE BY DEANE ADAMS AND DEANE, 30 KING WILLIAM STREET, LONDON BRIDGE, NO. 7307R, CIRCA 1855 with browned twist octagonal sighted barrel fitted with blued folding back-sight calibrated to 300 yards, numbered `127` on the left of the breech, scroll-engraved blued frame signed on the top-strap, fitted with shield on the right, and blued safety-spring on the left, blued cylinder retained by a blued sliding lug, the hammer enclosed within a scroll-engraved case-hardened block behind the cylinder, figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, engraved blued steel mounts comprising trigger-guard with knurled squared off front, butt-plate with tang, and much early finish throughout: in original fitted oak case lined in green baize, the lid with trade label for 30 King William Street 56 cm; 22in barrel A relatively small number of these revolving rifles were produced, another, numbered 7756 and 128 is preserved in the Imperial War Museum, London, cat. No. FIR7831. Robert Adams patented his improvements in Rifles and Other Firearms in 1851, patent number 13,527.
Lot 441
A .700 CALIBRE PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLE BY WILLIAM MOORE, 78 EDGWARE ROAD, LONDON, NO. 374, CIRCA 1830 with signed browned twist octagonal sighted barrel rifled with twelve grooves, fitted with folding back-sight of three leaves each with a gilt line, engraved case-hardened breech with pierced platinum plug, engraved case-hardened tang decorated with a stag, signed engraved case-hardened flush-fitting lock decorated with scrolls and a fallen stag (safety-catch replaced), highly figured walnut half-stock with chequered fore-end and grip, raised cheek-piece, engraved blued steel mounts including numbered trigger-guard decorated with a stag on the bow, matching butt-plate, and engraved oval barrel bolt escutcheons (one chipped) horn fore-end cap, associated brass-tipped ramrod, and some early finish throughout 76 cm; 30 in barrel William Moore is recorded at this address circa 1828-46.
Lot 113
A FINE 25 BORE OTTOMAN MIQUELET-LOCK RIFLE, TURKEY, CIRCA 1780 with octagonal barrel rifled with seven grooves, retained by four chased silver bands, encrusted with gold scrolls and flowers at the muzzle and the breech, the middle section with three gold-encrusted inscriptions and further sprays of gold foliage, struck with the barrelsmith`s mark on the left of the breech and fitted with standing back-sight also encrusted with gold, the tang overlaid with an engraved silver plaque, characteristic lock encrusted with gold scrolls of foliage within a beadwork frame, matching cock and steel, steel button trigger, figured hardwood full stock applied with a large openwork silver plaque beneath the lock, faceted butt formed of dark hardwood bands filled with panels of coloured bone inlays forming stars framed by green and white bone fillets and a band of engraved silver, profusely applied with further elaborate openwork silver plaques, a large engraved silver plaque about the barrel tang, silver barrel bolt escutcheons, green-stained horn fore-end cap inlaid with brass pellets, and iron ramrod 83.2 cm; 32 ¾ in barrel
Lot 452
A rare WWI French silver thimble, in original box, the thimble with leaf border cartouche of a soldier firing his rifle, signed ""F. P. Lasserre"" flanked by further panels of a male machinist and a woman sewing, the cardboard box printed within the lid ""le DE Dela Guerre - Somme 1916"", box a little weak to top section. (2)
Lot 452
A rare WWI French silver thimble, in original box, the thimble with leaf border cartouche of a soldier firing his rifle, signed ""F. P. Lasserre"" flanked by further panels of a male machinist and a woman sewing, the cardboard box printed within the lid ""le DE Dela Guerre - Somme 1916"", box a little weak to top section. (2)
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