Sale 9436
London, King Street-South Kensington Offsite sale
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18 July 2002
Price realised
GBP 3,585
Estimate
AN ITALIAN SNAPHAUNCE TANDEM MECHANISM FOR A SUPERIMPOSED-LOAD GUN Signed Luzio L, mid-17th Century With shaped flat plate and two cocks, and two steels centrally mounted on a single arm bearing on an oval spring, signed on the inside at the centre of the bottom edge 9 3/8in. (23.8cm.)
Provenance
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Literature
D.R. Baxter, Superimposed Load Firearms 1360-1860, p. 143. plate 79 A similar lock, illustrated in Herbert J. Jackson, European Hand Firearms of the 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries, fig. 34, bears the same signature, with the date 1647
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