Fine Bohemian Flintlock,ca1750

[hawkeye1755]

A BOHEMIAN FLINTLOCK GUN BY PAUL IGNATIUS POSER, CIRCA 1750 with swamped sighted etched twist barrel rifled with seven grooves (reblued), inlaid with gold scrolls and flowerheads around the muzzle and further gold designs including celestial motifs over the breech, signed lock chiselled with Diana seated ahead of the cock and a boar set upon by a hounds on the tail, double set trigger, highly figured walnut full stock carved with rococo scrolls about the barrel tang, and further scrolls and shell ornament about the rear ramrod-pipes and over the butt, sliding patch-box cover inset with a brass plaquette cast and chased with Diana in her chariot, gilt-brass mounts finely cast and chased with rococo ornament including solid side-plate decorated with a boar hunting scene, butt-plate decorated with Diana seated beneath a canopy and attended by putti, vacant rococo escutcheon, and shaped fore-end cap.

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[mazo kid]

Awesome rifle! Thanks for showing us. Makes me proud to be a Bohunk. Emery