A GERMAN FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE and an incomplete percussion sporting rifle, originally forming a pair of flintlock fowling-pieces, the first with associated barrel and half-stock (reduced from full), the second with octagonal barrel signed 'A. Rosen in Dyck 1856' in gold, and with full stock (fore-end replaced), each gun with signed rounded lock chiselled in relief with a winged dragon and Venus in a chariot drawn by a lion, finely carved stock, and finely chiselled iron mounts, the butt-plates with a scene of the chase, the escutcheons finely pierced and chiselled with the full crowned arms of Manderscheidt with lion supporters, by Mathias Weins in Colen ( sic ), late 17th Century 32¾in. and 29½in. barrel [E.308, 446] (2)
A GERMAN FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE and an incomplete percussion sporting rifle, originally forming a pair of flintlock fowling-pieces, the first with associated barrel and half-stock (reduced from full), the second with octagonal barrel signed 'A. Rosen in Dyck 1856' in gold, and with full stock (fore-end replaced), each gun with signed rounded lock chiselled in relief with a winged dragon and Venus in a chariot drawn by a lion, finely carved stock, and finely chiselled iron mounts, the butt-plates with a scene of the chase, the escutcheons finely pierced and chiselled with the full crowned arms of Manderscheidt with lion supporters, by Mathias Weins in Colen ( sic ), late 17th Century 32¾in. and 29½in. barrel [E.308, 446] (2)
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