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STAG HORN INLAID WHEEL LOCK TSCHINKE, 17th CENTURY AND LATER.

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Firearms & Armory Start Price:3,000.00 USD Estimated At:6,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD
STAG HORN INLAID WHEEL LOCK TSCHINKE, 17th CENTURY AND LATER.
NSN. Lock of characteristic form with external main spring, engraved. All small parts original. Engraved pan cover. Stock is profusely inlaid with white stag horn and mother of pearl in distinctive tschinke fashion with a fanciful tiger, eagles, dogs, monsters and a man astride a sea monster with horns across his shoulder. Gun is unusually short for a tschinke and bbl is Spanish form oct to round, also unusual. However, muzzle is swamped and stock cut out is for this bbl. PROVENANCE: Martin B. Retting, Los Angeles, CA. Collection of Dr. Douglas Sirkin. CONDITION: Lock is polished bright, somewhat worn with pitting on dog. Trigger guard and bbl have later browning. Front and rear sights appear to be of more recent vintage. Inlay is crisp with few, if any, significant replacements. Wood would rate very good to excellent. Sliding patchbox is original. Stag horn buttplate is nicely scrimshawed. Trigger is replaced. All together a very attractive and unusually short tschinke. 4-49797 MZ19