Product Details
A FINE AND EARLY 18-BORE FLINTLOCK CONTINENTAL SPORTING-MUSKET SIGNED CARL PFEIFER, no visible serial number,
circa 1720 and probably Vienna school, Austria, with well rebrowned two-stage 43 1/2in. twist octagonal slightly swamped barrel in the Turkish fashion, carved bands at the girdle, foliate silver fore-sight, the long breech section inlaid with silver scrolls and engraved silver arabesques, gilt bush to touch-hole, two moulded and applied silver bands and gold-lined barrelsmith's mark in Arabic characters on the top, engraved and flared square-tipped top-tang, brushed bright flat bevel-edged lock engraved with a stag hunting scene in a landscape and signed 'CARL PFEIFER' below the unbridled lozenge-shaped pan, the cock chisel-carved and engraved and with circular form jaws, engraved front face to the frizzen and with carved and feather-tipped spring, walnut full stock (fore-end an expert replacement) with relief carving along the ramrod channel and with raised rococo carving around the top-tang and front of comb, brass engraved, moulded and carved furniture including cast and pierced side-plate with a hound taking a hare within scrolling foliage, engraved crowned escutcheon, butt-plate featuring an engraved female portrait bust centred on the chisel scroll engraved heel spur, the trigger-guard decorated en suite and with raised lower tang, engraved, turned and faceted ramrod-pipes, moulded horn fore-end tip and replacement horn-tipped ramrod
Provenance: This maker appears to be unrecorded
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Estimate £1,500-2,500