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A Brescian 40-Bore Flintlock Belt PistolLate 17th Century
25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £4,080 inc. premium
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Late 17th Century
Late 17th Century
With shortened two-stage barrel faceted towards the muzzle and carrying the fore-sight, turned girdle, breech cut with raised lines and stamped 'Lazarino Caminazzo' between trefoil marks (Neue Støckel, 7259), later gold-lined touch-hole, plain slender tang, flat bevelled lock engraved with a coiled monster and foliage, cock en suite, the retaining screw engraved with a winged monster, highly figured full stock inlaid with steel panels finely pierced and engraved with symmetrical designs of elaborate scrolling foliage, fluted fore-end carved with a foliate band at the rear, steel mounts pierced and engraved en suite with the stock inlays and comprising rounded pommel with short spurs, trigger-guard and rear ramrod-pipe, later set trigger and horn fore-end cap, and wooden ramrod with turned steel tip
27.5 cm. barrel
27.5 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Literature:
F. Theodor Dexter, Half Century Scrapbook of Vari-Type Firearms, 1960, p. 77, pl. 33 and p. 81, pl. 35, No. 932








