September 29, 2021 The Bill Myers Collection
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/29/2021
Unsigned, but of distinctly German form. Brass barrel an applied front sight and no rear sight. Barrel appears to utilize a barrel liner to keep the weight as light as possible as the face of the muzzle is silver and the barrel makes a hollow sound when tapped. Muzzle with lined decorations. Full length jaeger style stock with distinctive German triggerguard and horn nosecap. Ramrod retained by two faceted ferrules and feeding into a reinforced mouth and tipped with a horn wrap. Decorative convex lock with unbridled frizzen and swan neck cock. Light border decoration. Clever removable buttplate houses the bellow mechanism (crank absent). Stock is decorated with a mixture of incise and relief carving. Small German cheekpiece with decorative carving en suite. Decorative pierced sideplate. CONDITION: Barrel has some dents and is visibly bent but retains an untouched patina. Lock is very good with an untouched oiled patina. Brass furniture has a deep untouched patina. Stock is very good with some cracks, chips, and repairs, most noticeable on left side of stock above the mouth where bend in barrel is. Action not tested to avoid potential damage. Bore is good but is visibly askew from bent barrel. EW