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EARLY 18TH CENTURY
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A FINE NORTH ITALIAN SNAPHAUNCE SPORTING GUN
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
With octagonal to round barrel with full length sighting flat, shaped silver sights, and engraved with a Classical bust at the breech, rounded lock chiselled in low relief with ornament including a female portrait bust and signed 'BENTO', figured walnut full stock profusely carved in low relief with scrollwork and figures, iron mounts chiselled in low relief with scrolls, monsters and further portrait busts, iron sling mounts, and later horn-tipped ramrod
36in. (91.4cm.) barrel
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
With octagonal to round barrel with full length sighting flat, shaped silver sights, and engraved with a Classical bust at the breech, rounded lock chiselled in low relief with ornament including a female portrait bust and signed 'BENTO', figured walnut full stock profusely carved in low relief with scrollwork and figures, iron mounts chiselled in low relief with scrolls, monsters and further portrait busts, iron sling mounts, and later horn-tipped ramrod
36in. (91.4cm.) barrel
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