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Lot 570:
This wheellock muzzle-loading rifle (musket) mainly suitable for hunting, is dated 1620. The well-preserved ivory veneered stock is finely engraved with hunting scenes. The octagonal barrel is featuring the name of the gunsmith "MORGENROTH A GENRODE", from Saxony-Anhalt German land, "they were said to be such a gunsmith and craftsmen family", according to some mid-eighteenth-century documents. The family of gunsmith was famous for making hunting rifles all the way to the early nineteenth century. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Morgenroth signature was composed of the name initial letters followed by the surname unlike the musket presented for sale herein. Its finely etched lock plate bares "MATH-IES-US" acronym, the hammerhead has a characteristic shape of the German weapons of the period. According to the most important German arquebus producer list by J. E. Stokel – there is no information about Morgenroth during the sixteenth century, except for one reference only. CITES certificate is available (please send an inquiry).
Dimensions: L: 41 1/4 in., (105 cm.)
Condition: Very good with
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