AN UNUSUAL BOHEMIAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves and struck with a copper-inlaid maker's mark, the grooved breech struck with maker's signature 'Georg Scholz, Brin', flat lock with flush-fitting cock and internal wheel, profusely engraved with monsters, birds, scrollwork, and a female muscian in a landscape, signed within a scroll and dated twice, the wheel-cover pierced and engraved with a symmetrical pattern of scrolls, stained full stock with line engraved borders and fluted fore-end, sparsely inlaid with engraved staghorn panels and cut opposite the lock for the wheel-spindle, indented iron trigger-guard, set trigger, engraved staghorn ramrod-pipes and fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod, the lock signed Davie Shubardt and dated 1604(?), third quarter of the 17th Century | Christie's

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AN UNUSUAL BOHEMIAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves and struck with a copper-inlaid maker's mark, the grooved breech struck with maker's signature 'Georg Scholz, Brin', flat lock with flush-fitting cock and internal wheel, profusely engraved with monsters, birds, scrollwork, and a female muscian in a landscape, signed within a scroll and dated twice, the wheel-cover pierced and engraved with a symmetrical pattern of scrolls, stained full stock with line engraved borders and fluted fore-end, sparsely inlaid with engraved staghorn panels and cut opposite the lock for the wheel-spindle, indented iron trigger-guard, set trigger, engraved staghorn ramrod-pipes and fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod, the lock signed Davie Shubardt and dated 1604(?), third quarter of the 17th Century

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AN UNUSUAL BOHEMIAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves and struck with a copper-inlaid maker's mark, the grooved breech struck with maker's signature 'Georg Scholz, Brin', flat lock with flush-fitting cock and internal wheel, profusely engraved with monsters, birds, scrollwork, and a female muscian in a landscape, signed within a scroll and dated twice, the wheel-cover pierced and engraved with a symmetrical pattern of scrolls, stained full stock with line engraved borders and fluted fore-end, sparsely inlaid with engraved staghorn panels and cut opposite the lock for the wheel-spindle, indented iron trigger-guard, set trigger, engraved staghorn ramrod-pipes and fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod, the lock signed Davie Shubardt and dated 1604(?), third quarter of the 17th Century
29½in. barrel [E.117, S.4]

拍品专文

Brin (Brno) remains a gunmaking centre to this day. The signature on the lock, apparently unrecorded elsewhere, may be that of the engraver