J. HABERDA in Frauenberg Single-shot hunting or sporting rifle with capsule percussion. Signed lock engraved with leaves and two hounds, and enhanced with gold. Dog en suite, with a hound's head in a medallion. Strong octagonal barrel, black patina, signed in gold and marked "Guss Stahl" towards the thunder. Tailstock and breech chased with an ibex and a stag among foliage. Stripes. Cal. 8 mm. With sights. Selected walnut shortstock, with longstock and cheekstock, carved with a bearded Pan head and foliate scrolls, with a German soldier's head, in reserves, on a grained background. Cut-out and engraved iron fittings: stock reserve cover embellished with a scene of a scout being attacked by an eagle (marked "die Fahrt nach dem. Adlernest": "chemin vers le nid d'aigle") and long hinge plate decorated with foliage; trigger guard with finger rest adorned en suite with a fawn lying in a cartouche, its blackened horn rear part shaped into a lug and scroll; bedplate and its return chiselled soberly, en suite. With two triggers, the second adjustable with stecher. Metal thumb piece, figured. South Bohemia, second half of the 19th century. Barrel length: 69.4 cm - Overall length: 111.5 cm. Without ramrod. Damaged front sight tunnel. Barrel appears obstructed a few centimeters from the breech. Dog holding the first notch, but not the second. As is. Wear, particularly to the patina, scratches and bumps, some more marked in front of the lock and on the fore-end; a few chips around the breech tail; a few chips and small cracks to the trigger guard horn; scattered oxidation with some pitting to the barrel. Harquebusier Johann Haberda was originally active in Krumau, then became a supplier to the court of the Schwarzenberg princes at Frauenberg (Hluboká) castle, now in the Czech Republic. He appears to have been active between 1850 and 1898.