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487 A PAIR OF 28 BORE GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUNS BY G. LICHTENFELS, A CARLSRUH, CIRCA 1790 with sighted barrels retaining almost all their original brown marbled finish, chiselled with scrolls about the medians, numbered breeches, signed rounded locks engraved with a spray of scrollwork on the tails, fitted with blued pans and cocks with blued topjaws, figured walnut half-stocks impressed ‘27’ and ‘28’ behind the locks, carved with scrolls of foliage over the fore-ends and a bouquet about the tangs, the butts with carved raised cheek-pieces decorated with rococo foliage and flowers on the left, steel mounts including broad trigger-guards in the French taste with moulded finials, butt-plates with tangs matching the trigger-guards and the rear ramrod-pipes en suite, horn fore-end caps, iron sling swivels, and horntipped wooden ramrods (one missing its horn) 90.5 cm; 35 ⅝ in barrels (2) Provenance Property of a European Nobleman by direct descent from the Grand Duke of Baden, sold in these rooms 4th December 2013, lot 427. Probably by Johann Georg Lichtenfels recorded in Karlsruhe, Baden circa 1800 and Hofbüchsenmacher. £1800-2000
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