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A Brescian Wheel-Lock Mechanism For A Pistol Circa 1640
23 May 2018, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £500 inc. premium
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Circa 1640
Circa 1640
With shaped flat plate struck on the inside with maker's mark 'FG' in an oval, a fleur-de-lys above, chiselled foliate wheel-retaining bracket, sprung sliding pan-cover, and cock chiselled with foliage on the baluster arm
16.5 cm.
16.5 cm.
Footnotes
Cf. a very similar example from the W. Keith Neal Collection sold at Christie's London, Antique Arms and Armour..., 18 July 2002, lot 153
For the maker's mark see Nolfo di Carpegna, Brescian Firearms, 1997, pp. 59-60, I, 157., pl. XLI, 53








