with slender steel bow fitted with later string of twisted cord incorporating a pocket for the pellets, a pair of fixed fore-sight pillars, built-in gaffle retained by a spring-catch at the rear, stamped with the maker's mark, in a shield a prancing stag (Neue Støckel 5143 or 8442), carved fruitwood butt decorated with scrolls and linear frames, inset with an engraved plaque on the left charged with crowned Bavarian ducal arms (chipped) on the left, and with scenes from the chase on the right, steel loop, and trigger-guard, 59 cm tiller

Provenance

Ernst Schmidt, Munich, 5th June 1930, no. 24

John Woodman Higgins Armory, Worcester Massachusetts (inv. no 1106), sold in this room 20th March 2013, lot 259.