A Pair Of 29-Bore Austrian (Viennese) Wheel-Lock Sporting Rifles By Georg Keiser, circa 1690-1700 With swamped octagonal sighted barrels each cut with seven grooves and retaining some of their original blued finish, the top of each breech with stamped signature 'Georg Keiser' flanking his brass-lined mark ( Neue Støckel 567), at the rear a chiselled band of beadwork, gold-lined touch-holes, plain tangs numbered respectively '1' and '2', flat locks each engraved with a wreath of flowers and foliage in imitation of a wheel-cover, the cock-spring bridles engraved en suite, the cocks pierced and engraved with marine monsters, sliding pan-covers, the pans each with a rectangular fence engraved with a recumbent figure in a landscape, maple full stocks inlaid with engraved white staghorn plaques, engraved white staghorn ramrod-pipes (some wear, one replaced) and fore-end caps (one chipped), rootwood patch-box covers inlaid with white staghorn plaques engraved with different figures in landscapes, including Ceres and the infant Bacchus (one horn base-plate replaced), horn butt-plates each with iron button, lightly engraved indented iron trigger-guards, set triggers, and wooden ramrods, probably original, each with engraved white staghorn tip 32½in. (82.5cm.) barrels (2)
A Pair Of 29-Bore Austrian (Viennese) Wheel-Lock Sporting Rifles By Georg Keiser, circa 1690-1700 With swamped octagonal sighted barrels each cut with seven grooves and retaining some of their original blued finish, the top of each breech with stamped signature 'Georg Keiser' flanking his brass-lined mark ( Neue Støckel 567), at the rear a chiselled band of beadwork, gold-lined touch-holes, plain tangs numbered respectively '1' and '2', flat locks each engraved with a wreath of flowers and foliage in imitation of a wheel-cover, the cock-spring bridles engraved en suite, the cocks pierced and engraved with marine monsters, sliding pan-covers, the pans each with a rectangular fence engraved with a recumbent figure in a landscape, maple full stocks inlaid with engraved white staghorn plaques, engraved white staghorn ramrod-pipes (some wear, one replaced) and fore-end caps (one chipped), rootwood patch-box covers inlaid with white staghorn plaques engraved with different figures in landscapes, including Ceres and the infant Bacchus (one horn base-plate replaced), horn butt-plates each with iron button, lightly engraved indented iron trigger-guards, set triggers, and wooden ramrods, probably original, each with engraved white staghorn tip 32½in. (82.5cm.) barrels (2)
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