Hi Lancaster

thanks for doing the work that I was too lazy to do - copying the pictures etc!
Alive and well, thanks too, after some hospital visits recently.

Check the maker, Leithner in Ischl. I did not realize before he was active into breech loader times. This is quite the nonplusultra Ischlerstutzen. Interesting to see all those little muzzleloader details that were retained, including the little golden "Gams" in the cheekpiece - was this a "trademark" of Leithner?
I guess at that time, 1880 and compared to muzzleloader ballistics, .450 BPE was quite advanced.

Here is a similar rifle, caliber 12.5 mm Lefaucheux.

https://www.waffengebraucht.at/waffen/so...in-ischl--78352

And some older percussion rifles from Leithner:

https://www.dorotheum.com/auktionen/aktu...ionsbuchse.html

https://www.dorotheum.com/auktionen/aktu...er-stutzen.html

https://www.hermann-historica.de/de/perkussionsstutzen/l/77059

Cheers and Hurra die Gams
fuhrmann