LOT 146 Property from a Central European Collection A VERY RARE SAXON DECORATED COMBINED GUN REST AND SPEAR
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Property from a Central European Collection A VERY RARE SAXON DECORATED COMBINED GUN REST AND SPEAR, CIRCA 1730, ALMOST CERTAINLY BY JOHANN TOBIAS GRAEFENSTEIN with U-shaped head formed with a recurved flat edge on each side, robust faceted socket moulded at the top, fitted with a long hinged sprung spear blade forming the central spike, secured to the socket by a pierced rectangular lug engaged by a press stud when extended and to the haft by a sliding button when retracted, the head and the blade all finely etched and gilt with scrolling foliage within linear borders, on its original wooden haft with an additional pair of straps and conical steel shoe 76.8cm; 30 1/4in head, when extended Provenance Sold in this room, 10th December 2008, lot 188 An almost identical combined gun rest and spear decorated in the same manner is preserved in the former Electoral Armoury, Dresden, inv. no. T-98. See Lewerken 1989, p. 273, no. 149b. Johann Tobias Graefenstein is recorded circa 1713-1771. He succeeded Peter Tanner as Hofbüchsenmacher in 1750.
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