A RARE 40 BORE RIFLE BY SAMUEL HENRY STAUDENMAYER,... Lot n° 260
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A RARE 40 BORE RIFLE BY SAMUEL HENRY STAUDENMAYER, NO. 1085, CIRCA 1800
with octagonal sighted rifle barrel cut with seven grooves, signed in a gold-lined recess at the breech, inlaid with a platinum line and numbered beneath, fitted with figured walnut fore-end with engraved silver cap and silver barrel bolt escutcheon, signed action finely engraved with border ornament throughout, a rococo garland on top, a reclining stag, a Britannia trophy and a personification of wind on the left, fitted with engraved cocking lever on the right, indicator and safety-catch on the left, border-engraved trigger-guard decorated with a Britannia trophy, steel butt reservoir with internally threaded collar and later leather covering, and horn-tipped ramrod, perhaps the original, 70.0 cm barrel
Samuel Henry Staudenmayer, former workman of John Manton, was gunmaker to the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York. He is the maker of a Girandoni-system air rifle in the Royal Collection at Windsor (inv. no. L 409). Two air weapons by this maker are recorded in the Hanoverian Royal Gunroom, one of which was sold Sotheby's, Hanover, October 2005, lot 868. A very similar rifle numbered 1084 was sold in this room, 27
th June 2012, lot 40.
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