A SILVER-GILT MIQUELET-LOCK GUN PROBABY BALKANS, PROBABLY IOANNINA OR BOKA,...
A SILVER-GILT MIQUELET-LOCK GUN
PROBABY BALKANS, PROBABLY IOANNINA OR BOKA, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
The steel barrel faceted toward the miquelet lock, repoussé decoration with sitting humanoid figure wearing a hat and with grotesque face, the wood stock covered with silver-gilt sheets, the repoussé decoration with rococo floral arabesques on finely pounced ground, the underside with a continuous floral arabesque, the miquelet lock plate engraved with similar decorations and the number 'D18', the barrel stamped with letters 'D.I.' and a floral roundel, inscribed 'BALTHAUSSER MI...GINTL(?)'
59½in. (151cm.) long
Provenance
Joseph Wöhrer (d.2012), Vienna, by repute 1970s
A SILVER-GILT MIQUELET-LOCK GUN
PROBABY BALKANS, PROBABLY IOANNINA OR BOKA, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
The steel barrel faceted toward the miquelet lock, repoussé decoration with sitting humanoid figure wearing a hat and with grotesque face, the wood stock covered with silver-gilt sheets, the repoussé decoration with rococo floral arabesques on finely pounced ground, the underside with a continuous floral arabesque, the miquelet lock plate engraved with similar decorations and the number 'D18', the barrel stamped with letters 'D.I.' and a floral roundel, inscribed 'BALTHAUSSER MI...GINTL(?)'
59½in. (151cm.) long
Provenance
Joseph Wöhrer (d.2012), Vienna, by repute 1970s
