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The Antique Arms Collection of a Californian Gentleman

Friday 14 February 2025 • Sarzana

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A wheel-lock rifle by Michael Gull, about 1660

Estimate

€ 1.200 - 1.600

Sold

€ 3.000

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Vienna
length 104 cm.
Octagonal, rifled, 14 mm cal barrel (strongly cleaned), the base with frame and floral engravings, then signed ‘Michael Gull in Wien’ and with its brass-inlaid mark (Stöckel 7545); adjustable three-leaf rear sight with carved and pierced tang, brass foresight with remains of engravings. Tang with barely legible number. Inner wheel lock, the plate engraved with a wreath (rust damage); spring and hammer carved and engraved, the upper jaw carved with an archer. Wooden full stock (several restorations) with horn decoration; patch-box; iron trigger guard; trigger with (not working) set trigger. Horn-tipped, wooden ramrod. This lot is imported from a non-EU country and incurs additional taxes beyond the auction house commission and the V.A.T. Consequently, the total Buyer’s Premium, inclusive of all taxes, amounts to 35%.