A 38-BORE CENTRAL ITALIAN ROMAN-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOL

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A 38-BORE CENTRAL ITALIAN ROMAN-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOL

SIGNED PIANI, CIRCA 1740

With three-stage barrel stamped 'Mafeo Francino' on the fluted octagonal breech, engraved flat bevelled lock with a trophy of arms on the tail and maker's signature on the inner side, highly figured moulded rootwood full stock (minor cracks), full brass mounts engraved with foliage and trophies of arms and including shaped side-plate and escutcheon, baluster ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod
18½in. (47cm.)

Lot Essay

Mafeo Francino is recorded in Gardone in circa 1730. The signature inside the lock is probably that of Tommaso Piani, recorded in 1751
Acquired by the late owner in Zagreb (Croatia) in 1927 or 1928

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