Arquebuse de chasse à rouet par Wilhelm Neubauer,... - Lot 145 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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Arquebuse de chasse à rouet par Wilhelm Neubauer,... - Lot 145 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
Arquebuse de chasse à rouet par Wilhelm Neubauer, Prague vers 1690-95, la monture entièrement plaquée ultérieurement de corne de cerf gravée. A Bohemian wheel-lock sporting rifle by Wilhelm Neubauer, Prague, circa 1690-95, the stock veneered entirely in engraved white staghorn at a later date. With signed swamped octagonal barrel rifled with eight grooves, back-sight with one folding leaf, engraved silver foresight, flat lock within internal wheel, the plate engraved with a view of the city of Prague and with a wreath of flowers and fruit encircling the spindle, fitted with sliding pan-cover, the dog pierced and engraved with entwined grotesques and the bridle pierced and engraved with a marine monster, the stock entirely veneered in white staghorn, the underside engraved with trophies-of-war, the fore-end, the butt and the patch-box cover all engraved with an elaborate series of scenes from the Thirty Years' War, involving cavalry and infantry combats within detailed rural landscapes, the patchbox cover struck with a mark on the inside, iron trigger-guard, set trigger, and bone tipped wooden ramrod. L.: 101 cm - L. barrel: 74.7 cm. Wilhelm Neubauer is recorded working in Prague and Vienna between 10th January 1691, the date of his investiture as Master gunmaker, and his death in 1702. Neubauer held the Imperial appointments Kaiserlicher Büchsenspanner and Hofbefreiter. See SCHEDELMANN, Hans, Die Wiener Büchsenmacher und Büchsenschäfter, 1944. A wheel-lock rifle stocked in this rarely seen manner is in the former Danish Royal Armouries, the Tøjhusmuseet, Copenhagen. See SMITH, Otto, Det Kongelige Partikulaere Rustkammer I, 1938, n°291, pl.9, p.156 n°315. To date, opinion is divided in discussions concerning the origins and the period of production of veneered stocks of this type found on firearms and crossbows. See, Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd., The Collection formed by Director Folke Ellioth of Göteborg, Sweden, June 2, 1959, lot 129.
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