Pair of wheellock rifles with spanner from Cornelis Tromp, anonymous, c. 1650 - c. 1690 Radslot bugs or bird stirrer. A hunting weapon with drawn running of a small caliber, equipped with a hair tractor (Stecher) and precision vizier, intended to shoot sitting game. The octagonal walking is 69 cm long and equipped with eight right -hand traits; The caliber is 12 mm. The walnut drawers have a so -called German flask, inlaid with Hertshoorn, Been and Pearl; In addition to lions, unicorns, birds, dogs and griffins, flowers and fruits, a left -handed hunter is depicted on the pumps that, with the
Pair of wheellock rifles with spanner from Cornelis Tromp, anonymous, c. 1650 - c. 1690 Radslot bugs or bird stirrer. A hunting weapon with drawn running of a small caliber, equipped with a hair tractor (Stecher) and precision vizier, intended to shoot sitting game. The octagonal walking is 69 cm long and equipped with eight right -hand traits; The caliber is 12 mm. The walnut drawers have a so -called German flask, inlaid with Hertshoorn, Been and Pearl; In addition to lions, unicorns, birds, dogs and griffins, flowers and fruits, a left -handed hunter is depicted on the pumps that, with the right foot on the tail of his dog standing his rifle, imposed on a tree, on a non -visible bird and so on A clear picture gives how these rifles were shot. Radslot with outside wheel that runs behind an iron ring. No brands or signature. The shape of the flasks is German, but the insert is from Teschen in Silesia, where in the second half of the seventeenth century the art of the art flourished and where people specialized in making so -called teschinken, light yacht bucses with a Radslot of peculiar construction. Danzig iron (metal). walnut (hardwood). mother of pearl. bone (material) ornaments ~ art. hare-hunting, rabbit-hunting. hunting dogs
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