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464 A GERMAN DETACHED WHEEL-LOCK, LAST QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY with flat lockplate formed with a shaped terminal, fitted with internal wheel, sliding pan-cover (button release missing), flash-guard (bent) and pierced engraved dog, decorated on the plate with deer pursued by hounds and a hunter in an enclosure, and with a pelican in piety on the dog (worn) 23.5cm; 9 1/4in Provenance Fenton & Sons Ltd, London, 20th April 1931

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JWHA Inv. No. 1474 ‡ £250-350

465 A GERMAN DETACHED WHEEL-LOCK FROM A MÜLLERBÜCHSE BY NEHLER DESSAU, LATE 17TH CENTURY with stepped bevelled lock plate fitted with internal wheel, flash-guard, sliding pan-cover mechanism (cover missing), and dog, engraved with Diana, cupid and foliage (worn), and signed beneath the wheel 17.5cm; 6 7/8in Provenance George L. Maxwell, sold Anderson Galleries, New York, 28th November 1928, lot 49

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JWHA Inv. No. 630 ‡ £200-250

466 A BOHEMIAN DETACHED WHEEL-LOCK BY J. G. BOLTZ, CARLSBAD, CIRCA 1700 with stepped bevelled lock plate formed with a shaped finial at the rear, fitted with internal wheel, flash-guard, sliding pancover, and dog, signed on the fence (indistinct), decorated over its surface with an enclosed hunting scene with a town in the background, and the dog decorated with a hound and a monster (worn) 20.5cm; 8in

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Provenance George L. Maxwell, sold Anderson Galleries, New York, 28th November 1928, lot 53 JWHA Inv. No. 631 ‡ £200-250

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