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LATE 17TH CENTURY
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A FINE CENTRAL ITALIAN (TUSCO-EMILIAN) 60-BORE SNAPHAUNCE HOLSTER PISTOL
LATE 17TH CENTURY
With slender tapering barrel with full length sighting flat and engraved with a Classical bust at the breech (refreshed), engraved tang, rounded lock signed 'BASTIANO AQUA FRE', engraved with scrollwork, and chiselled with a spray of foliage on the tail, the cock chiselled in the form of a sea monster, figured moulded walnut full stock, iron mounts engraved with scrollwork and portrait busts (trigger-guard replaced), later iron belt-hook and iron-tipped ramrod
14in. (35.5cm.) barrel
LATE 17TH CENTURY
With slender tapering barrel with full length sighting flat and engraved with a Classical bust at the breech (refreshed), engraved tang, rounded lock signed 'BASTIANO AQUA FRE', engraved with scrollwork, and chiselled with a spray of foliage on the tail, the cock chiselled in the form of a sea monster, figured moulded walnut full stock, iron mounts engraved with scrollwork and portrait busts (trigger-guard replaced), later iron belt-hook and iron-tipped ramrod
14in. (35.5cm.) barrel
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.