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FIRING PIN DOUBLE FLINTLOCK GUN Austrian, ca. 1855/60, hunting weapon, Wenzel Maschek, Vienna. Damascus-steel barrels (L 74 cm), Cal. 18 mm, center rail signed in gold: "W.MASCHEK IN WIEN", bead sight. Barrel tang, with two pins as charge indicators, engraved decoration: dogs with captured hare. Locking box, cocking lever and safety with a finely engraved hunting scene, hound pursuing a fox, owner's coat-of-arms and tendrils. Iron mounts, trigger guard with horn extension, butt cap, three ramrod sleeves, walnut half-stock, stock neck with owner's coat-of-arms, butt with cheek piece and decorated with a fine hunting scene: hunter, game, dragon, tendrils. Wooden ramrod. L 116 cm. A high-quality firing pin hunting weapon by the gunsmith Wenzel Maschek mentioned in Vienna from 1853 to 1861. Cf. Eugène Heer: Der Neue Støckel, Schwäbisch Hall 1968, Vol. II, p. 768.
zurich, Switzerland