Need detailed photos

please help : :hatsoff:

Hi Raszpla,
Forgive me if I am saying something that you already know, but I believe that gun was decorated by J. Michael Maucher during the late 17th century. It looks like his work. Perhaps you might do a search of the internet for images of his work and come up with more photos. There are several examples of his work in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (Wien).

dave

thank you! It is highly likely. I want to get additional photos, I want to build this weapon. :hatsoff:

raszpla said:

thank you! It is highly likely. I want to get additional photos, I want to build this weapon. :hatsoff:

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That will be a chalenge, you will not be able to get ivory for those inlays.

:hatsoff:
This faragment marked in the picture is 100% is J. Michael Maucher.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/42.50.8

but how to get photographic documentation? I have to be patient! :hatsoff:

Hi Raszpla,
The best I can do for you at the moment is to offer the link below. It is a publication of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and shows details of a rifle made by Maucher. Scroll down to pages 16-18.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Z...Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=wheellock maucher&f=false

I cannot locate photos of the gun you indicate but seeing details of Maucher's work might give you some ideas and inspiration. By the way, if you cannot obtain ivory, cow bone will carve nicely but make sure that it is not boiled or bleached during the cleaning process because that will make it very brittle. Many museums have "ivory" artifacts that are actually made of bone.

dave

Try this link:
http://www.metmuseum.org/Collectio...1&ft=wheellock+rifle+Maucher&pos=2#fullscreen

Click on photo

Larger image will appear

Click on + sign to zoom in

To move left to right, or vice versa, place pointer on photo, then click and drag image to move.

Hope that helps.

CP

thank you very much for the information. These additional descriptions and photos will help me. :hatsoff:
the bone, I can handle it without a problem.
once again thank you very much for the effort :hatsoff:

Thank you very for your help. :hatsoff:

This site I know and understand the service. This is a beautiful gun.
the relationship between quality of work in wood and metal workshop reveals the specificity of J. Michael Maucher. is an interesting question, and it is evident in the many works. :thumbsup: :hatsoff:

as I can not get these photographs, it will build this the rifle:
http://www.hermann-historica.de/auktion/images61_max/07575.jpg
http://www.hermann-historica.de/auktion/images61_max/07575_b.jpg
http://www.hermann-historica.de/auktion/images61_max/07575_c.jpg
http://www.hermann-historica.de/auktion/images61_max/07575_d.jpg

description of the auction:
Radschlossbüchse,
deutsch um 1670. Achtkantiger im Mündungsbereich leicht gestauchter, gezogener Lauf im Kaliber 12,5 mm. Geschnittenes und graviertes Radschloss mit innen liegendem Rad, Stecherabzug. Reich beschnitzter Vollschaft mit jagdlich figürlichem Dekor, Kolbenfach. Auf der Backe vakantes Perlmuttmedaillon und auf dem Kolbenrücken Beineinlage bezeichnet "Hersan". Eiserner Abzugsbügel und sparsame Beineinlagen. Unterhalb des Schlosses alte Sammlungsmarke und Ziffer "IV". Hölzerner Ladestock mit Beindopper. Lauf, Radschloss und Schaft nicht zusammengehörig. Lauf an der Mündung etwas gekürzt(?), Visierung ergänzt, Ausfütterung der Laufmarke fehlt. Hauptfeder des Radschlosses angebrochen. Vorderschaft ergänzt, Schiebedeckel des Kolbenfachs sowie Perlutt- und Beineinlage des Kolbens ergänzt ebenso wie Abzug und Abzugsbügel. Schaft stellenweise mit Reparaturen und kleineren Rissen. Schrauben zum Teil erneuert. Länge 113 cm.
Vgl. Galerie Fischer, Luzern, Auktion 11. bis 13. September 2008. Dort Zuschreibung des Schaftes aufgrund stilistischer Merkmale an die Werkstatt des Johann Michael Maucher (1645 bis 1701) aus Schwäbisch Gmünd. :hatsoff:

Direct links to those photos:
http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/aa/original/DT11523.jpg http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/aa/original/DT11524.jpg

And a slightly larger picture with sharpened features:
http://puu.sh/1lINB.jpg

You are loved! :hatsoff:
but I insist on this rifle! :bow: :

but I understand that to get these photographs will be difficult

as we are in the museum, knocks me on my knees this weapon: http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/40003181

in my opinion, this is a beautiful specimen

This looks like the right one: http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/40001255

Lots of pictures there.

Hi Raszpla,
I believe rr_raptor65 gave you the links that you need. Well done Brian!

dave

thank you very much!! :thumbsup: :hatsoff: :hatsoff: :wink: :applause:

thank you very much for all the support given to me!

Now I can get ready for work!

I greet all :hatsoff:

:hatsoff:

I am familiar with all of these photographs. You could also look in albums of photos like photobucket for slightly different angles. I have seen photos of displays from the Met at various places by various people. I have a question... Is the ivory carving a stylized copy of the (Birth Of Venus)? I have seen it on a few rifles stocked by Johanne Michael Maucher and one by his father Johanne Georg also. My friend has a print of the painting and each time I use her bathroom and I see similarities to the carvings.