A fine and early iron mounted rifled carbine by Barthel Bauer c 1660. The butt is thick with a chin rest carved with foliate and marked with two crossed salmons and the number 8 - the family ownership mark of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck, butt cap with a long spur, slightly banana shaped almost flat lock slightly carved with foliate, S-turned side-plate, c 44,3 cm long octagonal barrel in calibre c 16 mm rifled with 7 deep grooves and marked with Barthel Bauer’s mark (Støckel 2017) and the mark of Baden (almost like Støckel 8511). The barrel is held by a screw from beneath and by barrel pins, the stock ends in wood and the horn-tipped ramrod is held by two pierced pipes.
Barthel Bauer worked c 1645–71, from 1649 as gunmaker to the Margrave Frederik VI of Baden. Provenance: The Schloss Dyck collection.