Snaphaunce Hunting Rifle, dated 1722, Stockholm, Swedish, Stockholm, Steel, wood (walnut), brass, horn, L. 43 3/8 in. (117.8 cm), Firearms, This rifle exemplifies the diverse influences shaping firearms design in eighteenth-century Sweden. Its slender proportions and small-caliber barrel are modeled after the Silesian Tschinke rifle; the prominent cheek stock is typically German, as is the use of inset brass decoration, yet the flat-faced lock copies French models
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Snaphaunce Hunting Rifle, dated 1722, Stockholm, Swedish, Steel, wood, walnut, brass, horn, L, 43 3/8, 117.8 cm, Firearms, rifle, exemplifies, diverse influences, shaping, firearms, design, eighteenth-century Sweden, slender proportions, small-caliber barrel, modeled, Silesian Tschinke, prominent cheek, stock, typically German, inset brass, decoration, yet, flat-faced lock, copies, French, models
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