26th Nov, 2024 10:00

AUTUMN VIRTUAL FINE ANTIQUE ARMS & ARMOUR AUCTION

 
  Lot 381
 

381

A 19-BORE 17TH CENTURY GERMAN NUREMBERG WHEEL-LOCK RIFLE ENSEMBLE

30.75inch sighted octagonal barrel, the lockplate struck with a Nuremberg mark, Stockel b5225 pg894, full stock profusely and finely inlaid with vignettes of flower heads and tendrils, the butt inlaid with a wild boar to one side and a large crest on the other, further decorated with a hunter and hound, the former bearing a boar spear and a hare, all in horn, the butt plate incised I653 and with the initials NA or HA, horn topped wooden ramrod, together with a pierced circular fruitwood powder flask and a later wheel-lock combination tool. (3)

Sold for £4,600


 

30.75inch sighted octagonal barrel, the lockplate struck with a Nuremberg mark, Stockel b5225 pg894, full stock profusely and finely inlaid with vignettes of flower heads and tendrils, the butt inlaid with a wild boar to one side and a large crest on the other, further decorated with a hunter and hound, the former bearing a boar spear and a hare, all in horn, the butt plate incised I653 and with the initials NA or HA, horn topped wooden ramrod, together with a pierced circular fruitwood powder flask and a later wheel-lock combination tool. (3)