A 20-BORE DUTCH FLINTLOCK WENDER FOWLING GUN BY IOANNES DEPRÉ A MASTRICH, CIRCA 1700 with sighted turn-over barrels released by a catch impaling the front of the trigger-guard, formed with long sighting flats, the breech sections flat-sided with wavy edges and each chiselled with a demon mask and small relief ornaments, the upper barrel inscribed "A Mastrich", signed rounded back-action lock decorated at the rear with a demon mask chiselled in low relief after an engraved design by Cornelis Bos the steels each chiselled en suite and the cock chiselled with scrollwork issuant from a monster's mouth, moulded figured walnut butt and fluted fore-end, iron butt-plate decorated with a further demon mask in low relief, together with a design involving a pair of serpent-like monsters issuant from the mouth of a monster cut over the tang, chiselled iron side-plate formed as a pierced scrollwork design after Claude Simonin the scrollwork emerging from a grotesque female half-figure, pierced and chiselled escutcheon formed as a framework of monsters' head scrolls, and the fore-end with four iron baluster-shaped ramrod-pipes carried on the left (ramrod missing) 118 cm; 46½ in barrels
A 20-BORE DUTCH FLINTLOCK WENDER FOWLING GUN BY IOANNES DEPRÉ A MASTRICH, CIRCA 1700 with sighted turn-over barrels released by a catch impaling the front of the trigger-guard, formed with long sighting flats, the breech sections flat-sided with wavy edges and each chiselled with a demon mask and small relief ornaments, the upper barrel inscribed "A Mastrich", signed rounded back-action lock decorated at the rear with a demon mask chiselled in low relief after an engraved design by Cornelis Bos the steels each chiselled en suite and the cock chiselled with scrollwork issuant from a monster's mouth, moulded figured walnut butt and fluted fore-end, iron butt-plate decorated with a further demon mask in low relief, together with a design involving a pair of serpent-like monsters issuant from the mouth of a monster cut over the tang, chiselled iron side-plate formed as a pierced scrollwork design after Claude Simonin the scrollwork emerging from a grotesque female half-figure, pierced and chiselled escutcheon formed as a framework of monsters' head scrolls, and the fore-end with four iron baluster-shaped ramrod-pipes carried on the left (ramrod missing) 118 cm; 46½ in barrels
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