A COMPOSITE BRESCIAN FLINTLOCK BELT PISTOL with two-stage barrel stamped 'Lazarino Cominazzo' on the fluted octagonal breech, signed rounded lock chiselled in relief on the tail and with chiselled details on the pan and steel (cock associated, one side-nail missing), moulded figured walnut full stock (chipped) with iron mounts chiselled in relief in the Brescian manner, the trigger in the form of a marine monster (ramrod missing), partly circa 1700, the lock by Giovita Pesi | Christie's

Lot 320

320

A COMPOSITE BRESCIAN FLINTLOCK BELT PISTOL with two-stage barrel stamped 'Lazarino Cominazzo' on the fluted octagonal breech, signed rounded lock chiselled in relief on the tail and with chiselled details on the pan and steel (cock associated, one side-nail missing), moulded figured walnut full stock (chipped) with iron mounts chiselled in relief in the Brescian manner, the trigger in the form of a marine monster (ramrod missing), partly circa 1700, the lock by Giovita Pesi

Details

A COMPOSITE BRESCIAN FLINTLOCK BELT PISTOL with two-stage barrel stamped 'Lazarino Cominazzo' on the fluted octagonal breech, signed rounded lock chiselled in relief on the tail and with chiselled details on the pan and steel (cock associated, one side-nail missing), moulded figured walnut full stock (chipped) with iron mounts chiselled in relief in the Brescian manner, the trigger in the form of a marine monster (ramrod missing), partly circa 1700, the lock by Giovita Pesi
20 3/8in.

Provenance

E.J. Churchill Collection, Orange Street Gunworks, London W.C.2

Literature

Herbert J. Jackson, European Hand Firearms of the 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries, fig. 60 (plate XXXIV)

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