Flintlock Gun of Emperor Charles VI (1685–1740)

Signature: Incised on the breech end of the barrel: WOLFFENBUTEL; engraved on the pan of the lock: ·S· / HAUSCHKA.

Inscription: Painted on the barrel: 725 (or 125).

Marking: Stamped on the escutcheon plate: intertwined and addorsed Cs surmounted by a crown.

ex-collection: Theodore Offerman, New York; Freiherr von Dietrich, Vienna

New York. Brooklyn Museum. "Loan Exhibition of European Arms and Armor," June 12–October 31, 1933, no. 197.

Los Angeles. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Loan Exhibition of Mediaeval and Renaissance Arms and Armor from the Metropolitan Museum of Art," January 15–March 18, 1953, no. 124.

San Francisco. California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. "Loan Exhibition of Mediaeval and Renaissance Arms and Armor from the Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 18–June 7, 1953, no. 124.

Pittsburgh. Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute. "Loan Exhibition of Mediaeval and Renaissance Arms and Armor from the Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 1953–April 1954, no. 124.

American Art Galleries. The Very Notable Collection of Mr. Carl Robert Lamm. New York: American Art Galleries, February 21–24, 1923. no. 262 (a pistol, the lock signed S. Hauschka...).

Dorotheum. Fern– und Feuerwaffen, Stangenwaffen, Helme, Galanterie–Degen, Pulverhörner: mit Beiträgen aus Wiener Patrizierbesitz. Vienna: Dorotheum, February 27–28, 1924. lot 19, pl. II.

Bohlmann, Robert. "Johann Sebastian Hauschka. Braunschweigischer Hof–Büchsenmacher." Zeitschrift für Historische Waffen– und Kostümkunde, Zeitschrift für Historische Waffen- und Kostümkunde, 12, n.s.v. 3 p. 187–93 (p. 191 mentions a gun set with a portrait of Emperor Charles VI in mother-of-pearl, then in a private collection, which is probably this gun).

Grancsay, Stephen V., and Brooklyn Museum. Loan Exhibition of European Arms and Armor. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, June–August 1933. p. 30, no. 197 (lent by Theodore Offerman).

American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, Inc. European Arms & Armor of the XV–XVIII Century: Collection of the Late Theodore Offerman, Sold by the Order of the Executor of His Estate, The National City Bank of New York. New York: American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, Inc., November 11–13, 1937. p. 81, no. 363, ill. (p. 77).

Grancsay, Stephen V. Loan Exhibition of Mediaeval and Renaissance Arms and Armor from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1953. p. 31, no. 124, ill.

Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Trésors de la Toison d'Or. Brussels: Crédit Communal, 1987. pp. 176–77 (gun by Hauschka similar to ours).

Mowbray, Stuart C. "News from the Field." Man at Arms for the Gun and Sword Collector (August 2020), p. 6, ill.