A 40-bore Sardinian Miquelet-lock sporting gun
A 40-bore Sardinian Miquelet-lock sporting gun

SECOND HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY

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A 40-bore Sardinian Miquelet-lock sporting gun
Second half of the 18th century
With octagonal barrel stamped 'Lazari Cominaz' at the breech, characteristic lock with incised decoration and signed 'Barbuti' (?) behind the mainspring, full stock partly encased in steel panels engraved with foliage (some damage), those on the butt (incomplete) with pierced decoration, brass-inlaid iron trigger-guard, and iron ramrod
47½in. (120.7cm.) barrel

Lot Essay

For a similar gun signed Barbuto (sic), see Stibbert collection No. 628. Der Neue Støckel records Antonio Barbuti (Barbuto) in Sardinia, circa 1740-80

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