A Bohemian Detached Wheel-Lock by J. G. Boltz, Carlsbad. 12” overall with stepped bevelled lock plate formed with a shaped finial at the rear, fitted with internal wheel, flash guard, sliding pan cover, & dog, signed on the fence (indistinct), decorated over its surface with an enclosed hunting scene with a town in the background, & the dog decorated with a hound & a monster (worn).
C1700 In good condition
Provance Provenance ‘John Woodman Higging Armoury Collection’ Tom Del Mar 20.3.2013 lot 467, and George L. Maxwell, sold Anderson Galleries, New York, 28th November 1928, lot 53 JWHA Inv. No. 631