CIRCA 1640

Details

A Brescian Detached Wheel-Lock Mechanism
Circa 1640
With flat plate struck on the inner side with maker's mark 'OB' crowned within an oval, sliding pan-cover, and chiselled cock and wheel-retaining bracket
7½in. (19cm.)

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Descrizione dettagliata lotto

The maker's mark was ascribed by A. Gaibi to Onofrio Bertoli (Bertolio). See A. Gaibi, Le Armi da Fuoco Portatili Italiane, 1968, plates 119-120; N. di Carpegna, Brescian Firearms, p. 87, plate XLII (44)

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