Lot 63
GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK IRON MOUNTED CAVALRY CARBINE
CIRCA 1690
Auction: 21 April 2010 from 10:00 BST
£3,500
Description
the plain lock stamped with an armourer’s mark, the three stage barrel engraved at the breech deeply cut and chiselled with lattice work foliage on a punched ground hexagonal for the next stage, the flared muzzle chiselled into five raised scales, the full stock of pale wood with a curved slender butt with a heavy steel butt plate and the trigger guard cut and shaped into four sections, with brass inventory disc with number 1087
41in. (104cm) long, 13 bore