Product Details
DOLNE, LIEGE
A FINE 25-BORE FLINTLOCK DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING GUN, serial no 6,
circa 1820, with 33 3/4in. re-browned twist barrels, silver fore-sight, platinum lined touch-holes, engraved and grooved top-tang, flat bevel-edged border engraved lockplates with pointed tails, the plates signed 'DOLNE' on the right and 'A LIEGE' on the left hand side, tulips engraved to the tails, mythical serpents engraved to the hammers, scroll engraved frizzen fronts, figured walnut half-stock carved in relief with flowers and foliage at the barrel tang, finial and ramrod throat, the grip and forend carved with chevron chequering, the underside of wrist also carved in the form of a stags head with branches of laurel in its mouth, raised cheekpiece with carved foliage behind, engraved iron furniture with a hunter and dog to the trigger-guard bow, a bird and feathered mask to the finial, a shield shaped escutcheon engraved with the initials 'P.F. von P' beneath a crown to the top of wrist, scalloped take-down wedge escutcheons and original horn-tipped ramrod
Provenance: Schloss Rheinstein
The initials are those of Prinz Friedrich von Preussen (1794-1863)
Keith Neal Collection Reference G617
Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig of Prussia was born in Berlin to Prince Friedrich Louis Chalres and Princess Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, he was also a nephew of King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia.
He enjoyed a successful army career and commanded the Silesian Leib-Cuirassier Regiment from 1815 until his death 47 years later. He and his wife, Princess Wilhelmine Louise of Anhalt-Bernburg, were talented artists and started a groundswell of artistic and dramatical expression in Dusseldorf that grew into a nationally famous club. The Prince was later created the city's first honorary citizen.
Estimate £3,000-5,000