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27. Klassische Auktion

 

Auction on Thursday, March 28, 2019 from 16:00  | Auction ended

Completed | Physical auction

910

Lot: 910

flintlock o/u wender shotgun Albrecht - Darmstadt, calibre 24, #no serial number, § unrestricted

Starting price 10.000 EUR
Result:
10.000 EUR

97,5 cm smooth three-staged barrels, beginning octagonal at the breech, after a short flute a barrel band becoming round with a flat top and slightly swamped at the muzzles, engraved with the maker's name, a sunburst and an effigy of Pallas Athene, brass front bead and dovetailed iron rear sight, each rotating wender barrel with its own pan and frizzen, sliding trigger guard acting as bolt for the rotating disc, muzzles engraved with foliate scroll, bright action frame and flat raised lock-plate, engraved with beadwork and mythical figures fighting a dragon, flat cock, nicely shaped frizzen spring, delicately pierced counter lock-plate depicting serpents and a sphinx, slightly foliage carved walnut full-stock, sliding patch-box lid carved with scallop and rocaille, engraved iron furniture, pierced escutcheon on the straight hand depicting a cherub, iron butt-plate depicting a resting classic warrior, hardwood ramrod with iron tip, OAL 138 cm. LOP 33,5 cm, Johann Heinrich Albrecht is recorded from 1667 until 1711 as gunmaker by appointment to the courts of the Dukes of Solms-Braunfels and the Landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt, see Heer “Der Neue Stöckel”, condition II.