拍品 47
47
AN 18-BORE SPANISH MIQUELET-LOCK FOWLING-PIECE

細節
AN 18-BORE SPANISH MIQUELET-LOCK FOWLING-PIECE

BY CARLOS MONTARGIS, MADRID, CIRCA 1790

With rebrowned twist two-stage barrel with gold spider fore-sight and retained by two iron bands (the third missing), the top of the octagonal breech struck with two gold-lined marks (Neue Støckel 7921, 7922) with two gold-lined decorative marks above, gold-lined touch-hole, plain deeply grooved case-hardened tang, signed case-hardened flat bevelled lock, walnut full stock (small chip from fore-end tip), fluted Madrid-style butt, plain iron mounts of shaped outline including heel-plate and signed scrolled trigger-guard, and original horn-tipped ramrod
34¾in. barrel
出版
W. Keith Neal, Spanish Guns and Pistols, p. 16, plate 38

拍品專文

Carlos Montargis was the son of the Madrid engraver of the same name and grandson of the French gunsmith Miguel Montargis, gunsmith to Felipe V from 1701 to 1733. He was trained by Salvador Cenarro, and in turn taught Aquilino Aparicio and Ramon Zuluaga