AN ITALIAN (TUSCAN) ROMAN-LOCK FOWLING-PIECE with earlier two-stage sighted barrel signed with initials C.L.P. at the breech, (Neue Støckel 2254), for Cristoforo Leoni of Pistoia, flat lock with rounded chiselled tail, finely engraved with foliage and berries, and signed on the inside with initials GR, lightly carved highly figured walnut half-stock (fore-stock chipped) with fluted butt and integral wooden trigger-guard, inlaid with flat brass panels finely pierced and engraved with scolling foliage, flowers, berries, grotesque masks, and monster-heads, pierced barrel-band en suite, flat pierced side-plate involving birds and a dog, and turned engraved brass ramrod-pipe (ramrod missing), circa 1720

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AN ITALIAN (TUSCAN) ROMAN-LOCK FOWLING-PIECE with earlier two-stage sighted barrel signed with initials C.L.P. at the breech, (Neue Støckel 2254), for Cristoforo Leoni of Pistoia, flat lock with rounded chiselled tail, finely engraved with foliage and berries, and signed on the inside with initials GR, lightly carved highly figured walnut half-stock (fore-stock chipped) with fluted butt and integral wooden trigger-guard, inlaid with flat brass panels finely pierced and engraved with scolling foliage, flowers, berries, grotesque masks, and monster-heads, pierced barrel-band en suite, flat pierced side-plate involving birds and a dog, and turned engraved brass ramrod-pipe (ramrod missing), circa 1720
50in. barrel [E.242, S.16]

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