A wheel lock rifle

Estimate value
€ 6 000 – 7 000
Auction dateClassic
26.06.2024 14:00UTC +02:00
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Kunstauktionshaus Neumeister
Event location
Germany, München
ID 1237469
Lot 93 | A wheel lock rifle
Munich, 1st half of the 18th century,
Full stock made of walnut with rich inlays made of partly engraved and blackened bone.. Octagonal, slightly recessed barrel in the middle with a rifled bore. Set trigger. Lock with an internal wheel. Lock plate with a finely engraved depiction of a baroque society at the stag hunting, signed "I. G. DAX in München". Ramrod with bone tip. Smiths mark (Heer, Der neue Stöckel 1978, number 223, page 276). Minor damage. L 109 cm.

Johann Georg Dax ist als Büchsenmacher in München von 1714-43 nachgewiesen. Obwohl selbst Eisenschneider und Graveur, lässt er seine Waffen oft auch vom Münchner Hofgraveur Johann Christoph Stengl gravieren.
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