A small-bore wheellock rifle, Hieronymus Borstorffer, Munich, circa 1610 Slender octagonal barrel with slightly flared muzzle, six-groove rifled bore in 6 mm calibre. Dovetailed sights, at the breech barrel maker's mark "GM". Wheellock with external wheel, the wheel housing with two engraved seahorses. Spring-loaded pan cover, set trigger. The cock with the original flint of pyrite with lead sheathing (extremely rare!). Full stock made from walnut with lavishly engraved bone inlays, depicting mythical creatures and fruit festoons. On the chee 17t, Additional-Rights-Clearance-Info-Not-Available
Additional-Rights-Clearance-Info-Not-Available
Size: 5616px × 1872px
Location:
Photo credit: © INTERFOTO / History / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: -groove, ., 17th, 6, 1610, barrel, bone, bore, borstorffer, breech, calibre., century, chee, circa, cock, cover, creatures, depicting, dovetailed, engraved, external, festoons., flared, flint, fruit, full, gm., hieronymus, housing, inlays, lavishly, lead, maker, mark, mm, munich, muzzle, mythical, octagonal, original, pan, pyrite, rifle, rifled, seahorses., set, sheathing, sights, slender, slightly, small-bore, spring-loaded, stock, trigger., walnut, wheel, wheellock
