Schusswaffen aus fuenf Jahrhunderten

| 81 with internal wheel, the inside with cut and engraved springs. Lock plate with depiction of a deer hunt in an expansive landscape, the cock with seated Minerva. Full stock of beautifully grained walnut wood carved with tendrils. Butt wit cap. Engraved and fire-gilt brass furniture, the side plate with rich openwork and depiction of Perseus with head of Medusa. On the cheek rest plaque with crowned coat of arms of the Princes of Esterházy, flanked by two Cupids. Minor repair in the stock wood below the patch box. Original, wooden ramrod with tip of gilt brass. Length 114 cm. Matthias Staper (Stoper), recorded as gunsmith in Vienna 1712-47. He was born in the Styrian town of Windisch-Feistritz and became master in 1712. P rovenance : The Princes of Esterházy of Galántha are among the noblest and most influential families in Hungary and the Danube Monarchy. In 1687, Count Paul VI was raised to the rank of royal prince for his merits during the Turkish Wars. One ancestral seat of the family is the well-known Forchtenstein Castle in Burgenland. 282320 II + € 14.000 2062