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THBUnmarked Ornate German Flintlock Fowler
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250 Commercial Street
Manchester, NH 03101
United States
Amoskeag Auction Company is a specialty firearms auction company based in New Hampshire. Our experience and location have allowed us to create a highly advantageous environment for marketing collectible firearms at auction. This environment coupled with our high level of integrity and rigorous work ...Read more
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About Auction
LiveNov 17, 2018
Fine Antique and Collectable Sporting and Military Arms Featuring items from the collections of Cletus Klein, Tim Falvey, Dr. Jess Lewis, Dr. Louis C. March Jr., Roy Jinks & Others Amoskeag Auction Company amanda@amoskeagauction.com
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- Lot Description
About 16 bore, 41 1/2'' barrel with a bright excellent straight-rifled bore. The barrel shows lovely relief wootz damascus pattern its full-length with an integral rib running along its top edge. There is a simple silver star-mounted front blade, the rear features a silver capucine-style band with sighting groove and chiseled front and rear extensions; it is hallmarked ''SH'', or its converse, on its underside. The barrel shows inlaid crescent moon and star atop the flat with another silver star on the left diagonal flat, the tang highly polished and likely a modern replacement of top quality. The area surrounding the touchole has been polished bright, to a mirror finish, by hand, and features a gold liner. The slightly banana shaped lock has beautiful beveled edges, serpentine beveled cock with accenting ridge, faceted pan, unbridled frizzen with lovely chiseled frizzen spring. This lock appears to be of exquisite 20th century make and is polished by hand to a mirror finish. Whatever craftsmen did the lock, and what is likely a reconversion to flint, certainly rivaled the fellow who built the arm in the first place. The arm is stocked in a very nice grade of European walnut with an incise-carved horn forend tip with incise grooves along the ramrod channel. The original bone-tipped ramrod is retained by a faceted silver thimble, another to the rear of the swivel bail at the forearm. There are ornate, yet un-engraved, lock screw escutcheons on the left flat of silver. The carved single spur triggerguard is miraculously intact after all the years, likely due to a silver strap bolstering it nearly its full-length, the front extension lightly chiseled, but also un-engraved. There is a silver heel plate which is also lightly chiseled but unengraved at the butt, the hardware appearing very much to be actual, not German, silver as it is taking on an appropriate tarnish. The stock rates very fine showing the expected handling marks and dings that come from a hunted arm, with a drying crack at the left stock flat and a very professionally repaired chip at toe, done hundreds of years ago, it mating precisely the carving, contour and patina found on the balance of the stock. There is light floral island carving around the triggerguard's front extension with dropper points at the rear of the stock flats. There is excellent quality relief rococo scroll and foliate carving at the rear of the tang, flowing onto both sides of the point of comb and to the rear of the flat-bottomed cheekpiece. This arm is nearly a carbon copy of its more diminutive sister, listed in the previous lot, clearly made during the same period, although likely not by the same hand. A superb German fowler with straight rifling, all-the-rage in the late 18th century, especially in Germany. (38937-414) {ANTIQUE} [Cletus Klein Collection]
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