A 25-BORE SAXON WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING CARBINE BY WENZEL KUTSCHERA, BAUTZEN, DATED 1662 With sighted octagonal barrel of hog's back form rifled with six grooves and decorated at the muzzle and breech with a band of ropework, the latter struck twice with the maker's mark ( Neue Støckel 675) and cut with a sighting groove, flat lock struck internally with maker's mark ( Neue Søckel 4629) and with chiselled details, engraved on the outside with scrolling flowerheads and foliage inhabited by a recumbent stag and a bird, pierced engraved flush-fitting cock, full stock inlaid with shaped and engraved horn panels (minor replacements and repairs) within horn lines, the cheek-piece inlaid with a huntsman and a boar, engraved horn side-nail washers, later pierced horn ramrod-pipe and engraved horn fore-end cap, staghorn patch-box cover engraved with a boar and foliated strapwork, dark horn butt-plate, pierced iron trigger-guard, pierced set trigger, and wooden ramrod with engraved horn tip 23½in. (59.6cm.) barrel
A 25-BORE SAXON WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING CARBINE BY WENZEL KUTSCHERA, BAUTZEN, DATED 1662 With sighted octagonal barrel of hog's back form rifled with six grooves and decorated at the muzzle and breech with a band of ropework, the latter struck twice with the maker's mark ( Neue Støckel 675) and cut with a sighting groove, flat lock struck internally with maker's mark ( Neue Søckel 4629) and with chiselled details, engraved on the outside with scrolling flowerheads and foliage inhabited by a recumbent stag and a bird, pierced engraved flush-fitting cock, full stock inlaid with shaped and engraved horn panels (minor replacements and repairs) within horn lines, the cheek-piece inlaid with a huntsman and a boar, engraved horn side-nail washers, later pierced horn ramrod-pipe and engraved horn fore-end cap, staghorn patch-box cover engraved with a boar and foliated strapwork, dark horn butt-plate, pierced iron trigger-guard, pierced set trigger, and wooden ramrod with engraved horn tip 23½in. (59.6cm.) barrel
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