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Lot 115*

An Italian (Brescian?) 32-Bore Snaphaunce Pistol
Mid-17th Century

29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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An Italian (Brescian?) 32-Bore Snaphaunce Pistol
Mid-17th Century

With swamped octagonal barrel longitudinally fluted throughout its length, and with a baluster ring at the muzzle and a stepped ramp at the rear of the breech, long bright tang struck with a mark, 'LM' between pellets, with a star beneath, all within an oval (apparently unrecorded), bright bevelled lock engraved with flower-buds and foliage and with shaped tail, the flat cock engraved with foliage and flower-heads, walnut full stock (an early replacement) with sharply-angled butt of swelling octagonal section (minor worm holes, small early inset repair) inlaid opposite the lock and around the trigger with small pierced and engraved steel panels, single ramrod-guide en suite, engraved pommel cut with radiating flutes and retained by a central screw, engraved trigger-guard of waved outline, dolphin-shaped trigger, and steel-tipped ramrod
33.9 cm. barrel

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