FIREARMS. BAVIÈRE. Flintlock shotgun, walnut frame carved with scrolls and arabesques, brass fittings, single round octagonal thunderbolt barrel signed on the upper side in silver lettering "ANDREAS HAUER WIRZBURG", round-bodied lock with swan-neck hammer, trigger guard with finger rests, stock fitted with a lead bullet compartment whose sliding cover was probably rebuilt in the past, iron ramrod. L: 120 cm, barrels: 84 cm. 18th century. ABE Andreas HAUER (1739-1807), harquebusier active in Würzburg between 1770 and 1800, received master in 1766, married the daughter of the court harquebusier Georg Ignaz STAUDINGER whose activities he took over in 1773. ABE