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Lot 349

A Rare Russian Flintlock Blunderbuss
Indistinctly Signed, Probably Piotr Tretyakov, Circa 1780

27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£4,000 - £5,000

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A Rare Russian Flintlock Blunderbuss
Indistinctly Signed, Probably Piotr Tretyakov, Circa 1780

With finely twist two-stage barrel with two brass lines around the elliptical muzzle and silver scrollwork around the fore-sight, octagonal breech with two silver lines and decorated along the top with silver-inlaid foliated strapwork, engraved tang, border engraved flat bevelled lock signed on a scroll (signature rubbed) and chiselled with a foliate panel on the stepped tail, cock en suite (top jaw and screw old replacements), moulded figured full stock (some repairs, butt split) carved with foliage behind the rear ramrod-pipe and barrel tang, cheekpiece (repaired), foliate engraved brass mounts (side-plate replaced) including vacant foliate escutcheon in the English manner, and trigger-guard with foliate finial, turned ramrod-pipes, and later ramrod
57 cm. barrel

Footnotes

For a brass-mounted flintlock sporting gun, by Piotr Tretyakov, see Valentin Mavrodin, Fine Arms from Tula, 1977, nos. 66-70

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