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Lot 297

A Fine Brescian 32-Bore Flintlock Long Belt Pistol
Circa 1680

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine Brescian 32-Bore Flintlock Long Belt Pistol
Circa 1680

With two-stage barrel cut with repeated chevrons along the forward section and with a turned moulding around the muzzle, octagonal breech stamped 'Antonio Francino' between indistinct marks along the top flat within double lines along the angles, a slender moulded ramp at the rear, plain tang, rounded lock chiselled in low relief with fruiting foliage and involving a grotesque mask on the tail, pierced cock, steel and pan chiselled en suite, highly figured rootwood full stock (minor old cracks and small repairs) carved with a scroll above a swelling on both sides at the rear ramrod-pipe, steel mounts chiselled en suite with the cock and comprising flat side-plate, tang-plate, spurred pommel, trigger-guard with foliate finial, trigger-plate, fore-stock and muzzle-plates, and ramrod-pipes, belt hook sparsely chiselled with foliage, original ramrod with chiselled baluster steel tip, and in fine condition
40 cm. barrel

Footnotes

For details of the Franzino family and their marks see Nolfo di Carpegna, Brescian Firearms, 1997, pp. 275-293

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