Swamped heavy octagonal rifled barrel struck with maker’s mark (Stockel 237) and Strasbourg Guild Mark (Stockel 6049),with brass fore-sight and decorative rear-sight, rounded lock-plate inscribed 'Samuel Depfer/A Strasburg', and mounted with finely filed frizzen spring, heavy walnut stock of well-figured burl grain, carved in relief with bunches of grapes and fruit at wrist and classical nude figures at each end of the cheekpiece, iron trigger-guard and butt-plate, scroll-shaped trigger, fore-end tips of stock and ram-road of horn, elaborately carved patch-box cover decorated with relief carved scrolls and animals Samuel Depfer (Doepfer, Depffer), see Der Neue Stockel, page 289 Strasbourg Guild Mark, see Der Neue Stockel, pages 1701-2 Provenance: Wallace B. Gusler

Very good, with light patina on cleaned metal surfaces throughout, stock with expected marks overall