With swamped two stage barrel with roped girdle and dated on the top flat of the octagonal breech, flat lock, flat wheel-cover with brass bezel engraved 

with three pairs of hands each clasping a heart, all on a punched ground, slotted pan-cover release button, engraved swiveling safety-catch, fruitwood

full stock profusely inlaid with scrollwork and pellets in engraved stag horn, inhabited by birds, squirrels, masks and foliage, the borders also of stag horn

engraved with scalework, scrolls and stylized foliage, iron trigger-guard, iron belt hook with pierced finial, engraved stag horn fore-end cap, and original 

ramrod with engraved stag horn tip, in very fine condition throughout.

 

The inlay on the stock can be attributed, on stylistic grounds, to Klaus Hurt of Wasungen, whose signature appears on the stock of a wheel-lock gun

in the Historisches Museum, Bern (inv. no. 22231)

 

Provenance:         The Saxon Royal Armories, Dresden

 

Literature:            Kaa Wennberg, European Firearms in Swedish Castles, 1986, page 105

 

Barrel:                15 7/8”         22-Bore

 

Overall:              25”