Short rifle (stout) with wheel lock, Martin Hertel

Octagonal, brown, lightly rifled barrel with six grooves, 15 mm calibre, sliding reticle, steel sliding sight and diopter. Bottom bolt tongue repaired. Wheel lock with sliding cover of the inner wheel, lock plate engraved with hunting motifs, manufacturer's signature "MH" (Martin Hertel?) in front of the pan. Needle trigger with German type tensioner. The gun is fully loaded, the German walnut stock with a foil and simple carving is sparingly decorated with horn. Harp steel bow. Wooden charger with hornwood ramrod. Bohemian Tesin, 1st half of the 17th century, length 89 cm. See Eugène Heer, 'Der neue Stöckel' p. 525. A similar weapon bearing the monogram 'MH' is kept in the Imperial Armoury in the Kunsthistorisches Museu in Vienna. Condition 2+

Octagonal, brown, lightly rifled barrel with six grooves of 15 mm calibre, fish-slide sight, steel sliding sight and diopter. Bottom bolt tongue repaired. Wheel lock with sliding cover of the inner wheel, lock plate engraved with hunting motifs, manufacturer's signature "MH" (Martin Hertel?) in front of the pan. Needle trigger with German type tensioner. The gun is fully loaded, the German walnut stock with a foil and simple carving is sparingly decorated with horn. Harp steel bow. Wooden charger with hornwood ramrod. Bohemian Tesin, 1st half of the 17th century, length 89 cm. See Eugène Heer, 'Der neue Stöckel' p. 525. A similar weapon bearing the monogram 'MH' is kept in the Imperial Armoury in the Kunsthistorisches Museu in Vienna. Condition 2+

, Octagonal, slightly swamped blued barrel with six groove rifling in 15 mm calibre. Dovetailed, iron sights. The tang of the breech-screw reapired. The lock plate is decorated with a hunting scene depicting a stag hunt; the wheel lock features a concealed wheel, a spring-loaded pan cover, and a flash guard, and is marked "MH" (Martin Hertel), iron trigger guard with finger rest, double set trigger. Carved walnut full stock with cheek piece and patchbox with spring-loaded lid, lightly decorated with horn inlays; wooden ramrod with horn ferrule. See Eugène Heer, "Der neue Stöckel," p. 525. A similar weapon bearing the monogram "MH" is housed in the Imperial Armory at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Condition 2+