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Wednesday 25 September 2024 e Thursday 26 September 2024, 02:00 PM • Sarzana

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An extraordinary wheel-lock tschinke, 17th Century

Estimate

€ 15.000 - 18.000

Sold

€ 26.250

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Teschen
length 123.5 cm.
Octagonal, rifled, 8 mm cal barrel, engraved and gilded (missing parts) with floral motifs at the ends and at the centre, with cylindrical iron sight, brass foresight, slightly bell-mouthed nozzle. Long tang engraved and gilded en suite. Angled wheel lock, richly engraved en suite and with most of the original gilding, snap pan cover with engraving, hammer engraved with tulips; elegant wooden full stock of typical shape, richly inlaid with bone and mother-of-pearl featuring forest and fantastic beast (a unicorn), hunter on horseback, racemes, floral motifs, dots and lists; a lying deer in the lower part of the butt. Patchbox, iron trigger guard with remains of gilding; the butt-plate consisting of a single slab made of bone and engraved with a hare. Bone-tipped, wooden ramrod