MID-19TH CENTURY

with signed blued octagonal sighted barrel opened by a lever ahead of the trigger-guard, inlaid with a slender German silver line at the breech, the tang covered with a plaque of engraved German silver, enclosed action retained by an engraved German silver serpentine plate on each side, double set trigger, figured walnut full stock carved with a panel of chequering at the fore-end and the grip (the fore-end with a small chip), the butt with carved raised cheek-piece on the left and incorporating an iron spindle for the mechanism on the right (cracked), the latter enclosed by a pierced German silver plaque of shaped outline, German silver mounts including trigger-guard shaped for the fingers, butt-plate, and three ramrod-pipes, and horn-tipped ramrod, 74.5cm barrel

Provenance

The property of a member of the Wittelsbach family, sold in this room, 8th December 2010, lot 289