German Jaeger- Auction Win Question

[Nailcreek]

I recently picked up a German Jaeger from a recent auction.  I'm interested whether members on this board might have some ideas as to when it might have been made ... genuinely 1700s or something a bit later.  The mainspring looks handforged, the lockscrews handmade.  The bore looks very clean ... and if it's been fired, it's not been overused.

[DaveM]

Beautiful maybe original and kept clean and dry?  I suppose some guns were just well kept. If you take off the sideplate what does that look like on the other side?

[rich pierce]

Mike Brooks could offer more on this but I’ll hazard 1720-1750. I like these plain ones that look more like earliest colonial rifles. I’m surprised it’s not signed on the lock.

[Eric Kettenburg]

Rich I think it might be a bit later than that, 1750s or 1760s decades but just speculation.  It looks like it could be a martial piece but not sure exactly where made.  There is a slight crudeness to it, somewhat provincial, and I think it has a slightly archaic appearance that doesn't quite match up with when it was actually made.  Where the heck is Immel when this stuff pops up?

I'd check the barrel out well and then shoot it!

[Seth Isaacson]

You find a lot of rifles and fowling pieces from some of the private gun rooms of various Germanic noblemen like that. Some of the plainer ones are numbered similar to this one suggesting they were made as part of a stand of arms. I'm often surprised at how little some have been used if at all.

[Mike Brooks]

Chris Imel could nail this right down.  I think its a 70s  gun, but I'd go with 60s too.. As was suggested it appears to be part of a stand of arms from some noble. I enjoy the LA k of metal finish in certain areas. Makes me feel great about my work. What's carved at the breech?

[Pukka Bundook]

My guess would be 1770's but only based on some parts that look like a Saxon gun I have, and engraving.

The number is as we know because made as a stand of arms to be issued to house guests  for hunting parties.

Must admit I can't see how the screws in the buttplate never garnered any dirt or anything. They look like they were put in yesterday!