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    Peter Finer Carbine and rifle - Meister der tierkopfranke?, circa 1635

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    A FINE AND IMPORTANT AUSTRIAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE STOCKED BY THE ?MEISTER DER TIERKOPFRANKE?, circa 1635 Formed of a swamped octagonal barrel with blade fore-sight and folding rear-sight of gold, decorated at its breech and muzzle with silver-encrusted foliage, pellets and cherub?s heads within moulded bands, and over the remainder of its surface with silver-damascened interlace, scrolling foliages, flowerheads and pellets on a hatched ground, the breech struck with the maker?s mark initials GF; flat lock struck with the same initials, decorated en suite with the barrel and fitted with fretted flat wheel-cover outlined in gold damascened in silver, long spurred dog with scrolled neck, and gilt bridle; full stock with sliding patch box-cover, decorated on the face of its cheek piece with a large roundel inlaid with engraved mother-of-pearl and white staghorn in the form of an oval plaque surrounded by flowerheads and scrolling tendrils, on the lower edge of its cheek-piece with similar ornament, at its fore-end and ramrod entry point with inlaid gilt brass bands, and over the remainder of its surface with animals of the chase, lions, fabulous beasts, fishes and classical figures representing Justice, Abundance and Venus attended by Cupid within a dense pattern of scrolls in some cases terminating in flowerheads and grotesque animal-heads, all crisply carved in relief on a stippled ground and fitted with a border-engraved butt-plate of gilt brass inlaid at its centre with an oval plaque of engraved mother-of-pearl, set-trigger, iron trigger-guard indented for the fingers, and wooden ramrod with engraved horn tip. No 27 1999 The Meister de Tierkopfranke or ?Master of the Animal-Head Scroll? as he has come to be known in the absence of any signature or monogram that would allow his real name to be identified, was one of the most important and successful gun-stockers of his age, receiving regular patronage from the Imperial Court at Vienna where it is likely that he was hofbefreit or ?officially favoured?. Of the eight splendid examples of his work still surviving in the Hofjagd-und Rüstkammer,Vienna, no less than three are believed to have been the personal property of the Emperor Ferdinand III (1637-57). For all his obvious high standing, no recognisable evidence of the activities of the Meister der Tierkopfranke can be found in the Imperial records. In contrast to the majority of stockers of his time, whose routine work could only be distinguishe



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