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Thursday 12 December 2024 e Friday 13 December 2024, 02:00 PM • Sarzana

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An interesting flintlock rifle

Estimate

€ 500 - 750

Sold

€ 1.063

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

length 127.5 cm.
Two-stage, rifled, 16 mm cal. barrel, octagonal at the first part marked "S" and with large crescent-shaped mark, missing rear sight, then round after a ring and with ring at the nozzle (missing foresight), the vent shifted forward; flintlock engraved with floral motifs and provided with a mark, modified for the new position of the vent. Wooden half stock with grooved butt and beautiful brass mounts, the counterplate pierced with floral motifs, the butt-plate with bust, the upper hilt of the butt-plate with floral motifs, the lower with a deity, the mounts around the tangs, in the fore-end and the barrel bracket are pierced and decorated with masks, busts and grotesque figures. Horn-tipped wooden ramrod.