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Lot 307
An unusual late 19th/early 20th Century walnut cased "Travelling Piano" (Harmonium) by DeBain of Paris, the two carrying handles flanking ebony and ivory keys and the instrument also with various musical effect levers above a makers label and white painted cast iron tripod base with pedal board, 56cm wide x 63cm high
Lot 307
An unusual late 19th/early 20th Century walnut cased "Travelling Piano" (Harmonium) by DeBain of Paris, the two carrying handles flanking ebony and ivory keys and the instrument also with various musical effect levers above a makers label and white painted cast iron tripod base with pedal board, 56cm wide x 63cm high
Lot 255
A RARE SOUTH GERMAN HEAVY BRONZE WALLGUN (DOPPELHAKEN ), DATED 1525, PROBABLY NUREMBURG 2.4cm calibre, the barrel cast in five stages with four characteristically narrow roped girdles, the forward four stages with raised scalloped edges, the muzzle and the forward section rounded, the muzzle flared slightly and with standing fore-sight, the rearward sections octagonal and widening progressively towards a short rectangular beech, cast with a large hook-like recoil-stop impaled by a transverse bolt and incised with an unusual numbering device on the right-hand side, probably that of the bronze founder , the penultimate rearward section decorated at its base with an engraved band of scale ornament arranged in triangular groups bordering a raised roped girdle at the breech, cast in relief with a shield quartered with a coarsely incised coat-of-arms and with the date "1525" also in relief on a stippled scroll above, the breech with bevelled leading edges, a further engraved scale pattern below a slotted back-sight projecting from a roped moulded base, the vent with integral pan on the right (pivot cover missing), and the underside with two lugs also carrying transverse bolts for mounting a stock: with later heavy wooden stock well-reconstructed in early 16th century style, with bevelled upper edges, the sides strongly bevelled forward of the recoil-stop, faceted behind the breech and with tapering separate tiller bound by an iron band 145.4 cm; 57¼ in barrel, 214.6 cm 84½ in overall Hakenbüchsen of this large size are correctly known as doppelhäken and were intended to be fired from a stand or tripod carriage and served by two men as a piece of light artillery. An example with closely comparable characteristics is preserved in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremburg (W 3000); this piece is most probably from the same foundry as the present example and is cast with the arms of Kressenstein. See Essenwein, Graz 1969, vol.1 p.114 and vol.2 pl. B. VII, fig.e. Another closely comparable example was previously privately sold from Schloss Langenburg and is now in a Bavarian private collection. The high quality of the casting in each case is in keeping with the leading Nuremburg bronze cannon foundries of the period. Each of the comparable examples is on its original wooden beam-shaped stock. The example formerly in Schloss Langenburg is also cut with a similarly improvised numbering device on the recoil-stop. This form of numbering system was evidently in common use in Southern Germany in the early 16th century; similar markings appear on a tally slate in a woodcut of a tavern scene by Erhard Schön of Nuremberg, circa 1530: see Trömner 2009. A conventionally sized hakenbüse of comparable form is marked in a similar manner on its hook and is in the historic town armoury of Hasselt in the Netherlands: see Kempers 1983, No.9, p.60, marking reproduced p. 77. Five bronze doppelhäken comparable with the present example are included in a finely drawn and coloured illustration in the near-contemporary Zeugbuch der vorderösterreichischen Lande (Folio 107), in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna: see Schedelmann 1972, colour frontispiece, pl.1. The stock for the present barrel is closely modelled on authentic examples, probably those in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum
Lot 259
A RARE GERMAN 6-BORE HAND-IGNITED IRON BREECH-LOADING WALLGUN (BOCKBÜCHSE), ON ITS RAMPART CARRIAGE, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with long heavy iron barrel formed in two stages with faceted moulded girdle between, octagonal breech widening towards the rear, struck with a key mark four times both on the top and on the underside, struck twice with a further mark involving the letters NM (Neue Støckel 4157), the right-hand wall of the breech with vent and fitted with priming pan with pivoted cover, the upper face of the breech cut with linear mouldings framing a rectangular vertical slot, the latter intended for fitting a sliding locking-bar impaling jointly the full depth of the breech and the rear of the removable chamber, the chamber cylindrical and rear-entering on the same axis as the bore, with touch-hole and locking aperture each corresponding with the breech, struck with a further single key mark and fitted with octagonal base-plate carrying a U-shaped loop, with swamped muzzle, fore-sight, standing back-sight, a pair of trunnions sweated into dovetail joints, the underside with four rings for attaching a fore-stock, and the recoil-stop removed (the bar locking the chamber is missing, the pan-cover bent): on an early 17th century painted wooden carriage of characteristic tripod construction, fitted with a pair of small wooden wheels, and with iron mounts including the original elevating-screw supporting the breech of the barrel in a simple cradle 159.5 cm; 62¾ in barrel; 185.5 cm; 73 in carriage A comparable iron barrel with a chambered breech of near-identical type, dated 1609, is in the Bernisches Historisches Museum (Kat. Nr. 2046). Another, also in Bern, removed from the city Zeughaus, is mounted on a carriage of very similar construction to the present example: see Wegeli 1948, pp.85-7, figs 115-6, cat no. 2120 and p.89, fig. 123, cat. no. 2123. The presence of a covered pan and the residual facility for fitting a stock indicate that this barrel was originally mounted in a stock, probably a beam-like type, and fitted with a simple matchlock mechanism. Its present arrangement as a piece of hand-ignited light artillery on a rampart carriage was evidently an adaptation made within its early working life, presumably as a more practical improvement and almost certainly as a part of the defences of Schloss Langenburg during the Thirty Years` War. The recoil-stop was removed at this time and the trunnions added also. The mark 4157 reproduced in Neue Støckel is found on a matchlock musket of circa 1590 in the Zeughaus in Graz but is evidently incomplete, the complete version of this mark is stamped on the present barrel and additionally includes the letters GAVS across the base of the mark.
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