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A Fine 20-Bore French Flintlock Fowling-Piece With Spanish Barrel
By Allevin à Paris, dated 1733, the barrel by Joseph Molas of Ripoll, circa 1690
With long three-stage barrel stamped twice with maker's mark at the breech and with spirally fluted intermediary section, silver spider fore-sight and gold-lined touch-hole, engraved tang, signed flat bevelled lock engraved with Juno in her chariot, the tail and cock-retaining screw each finely chiselled in low relief on a punched and gilt ground, the former with a trophy of the chase, finely figured walnut full stock (fore-end cracked, some chips and repairs) carved in relief with a grotesque mask behind the rear ramrod-pipe and foliate scrolls around the barrel tang, engraved parcel-gilt steel mounts chiselled with strapwork and foliage on a punched and gilt ground and including dated butt-plate and pierced side-plate, the latter involving an oval escutcheon engraved with crest, motto, and coronet of Home, Earls of Douglas, and original bone ramrod (tip an old replacement)
46in. (116.8cm.) barrel
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