A CENTRAL ITALIAN ROMAN-LOCK FOWLING-PIECE with associated two-stage sighted barrel (worn and lengthened, ramrod-pipe later), octagonal breech engraved '....Toscana' on the top flat (first part of inscription illegible), the lock (worn) signed on the inside and chiselled on the lock-plate with grotesque masks and foliage, the neck of the cock pierced and chiselled as a cherub, the mainspring and steel-spring each formed as a female figure, highly figured burr walnut half-stock, full steel mounts including a panel around the barrel-tang, pierced and chiselled in relief with foliage involving monsters, medallions, grotesques, and human figures, some blowing trumpets, and steel band at the fore-end (ramrod missing), by Antonio Ducalli(?), first half of the 18th Century