Lot 1001
A COMPOSITE ENGLISH OR DUTCH MATCHLOCK MUSKET WITH FINELY INLAID STOCK,last quarter of the 16th century.
1 – 10 April 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, Skinner Marlborough, MassachusettsSold for US$7,050 inc. premium
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A COMPOSITE ENGLISH OR DUTCH MATCHLOCK MUSKET WITH FINELY INLAID STOCK,
last quarter of the 16th century.
last quarter of the 16th century.
41 1/4 in., .69 caliber tapering octagonal barrel with iron bead front sight and notch rear sight; slightly convex lock plate with serpentine match arm and pivot pan cover, the inside with stamped armorer's mark; full walnut stock extensively inlaid with staghorn tendrils ending in engraved mother-of-pearl and staghorn ball flowers, staghorn birds and pellets, decorated in front of the trigger with a vase and foliate scrolls, the butt with engraved staghorn butt plate, wood rammer.
Overall lg. 54 3/4 in.
Condition: Sliver loss along the barrel channel, areas of inlay restoration, wear to the butt, wood loss at the nuzzle, action functions properly lacking rear side nail, portion of a later rammer.
Overall lg. 54 3/4 in.
Condition: Sliver loss along the barrel channel, areas of inlay restoration, wear to the butt, wood loss at the nuzzle, action functions properly lacking rear side nail, portion of a later rammer.
Footnotes
Provenance
Sotheby's, European Works of Art auction, October 17, 2000, Lot 247.
Note
The Visser Collection preserved a similarly decorated flintlock musket. See J.P. Puype, The Visser Collection, Arms of the Netherlands in the Collection of H.L. Visser, Vol. I, Part I, (Zwolle, 1996), pp.66-67, HV-423.