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PERCUSSION DOUBLE-FLINTLOCK GUN German, ca. 1860, hunting weapon, Franz Xaver Baader, Munich. Damascus-steel barrels (L 62.5 cm), Cal. 14 mm, signed in gold. "BAADER U. SOHN IN MÜNCHEN", fixed sights with flap, front sight. Flat lock plates and cocks, engraved with a hunting scene, fox and hound, tendrils. One trigger is a hair-trigger. Iron mounts, trigger guard with wooden extension and butt cap, three ramrod sleeves. Carved walnut half-stock with hatch pattern and large tendrils, butt compartment with engraved iron flap, decorated with: a resting stag, ornaments. Wooden ramrod with brass tip. L 104.5 cm. A rare double-flintlock gun made by Franz Xaver Baader, who had worked in Munich since 1830 and was appointed Court Gunsmith to King Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1837, in very good condition. Cf. Eugène Heer: Der Neue Støckel, Schwäbisch Hall 1968, Vol. I, p. 43.
zurich, Switzerland