A FINE ITALIAN SNAPHAUNCE SPORTING GUN
BY LORENZONI, THE BARREL DATED '1718'
With two-stage barrel signed 'Deodato Sordi Fece Nel 1718' in silver on the octagonal breech, silver sights, tang inlaid with silver borderlines, signed rounded lock finely engraved with a hunter and his hounds in a wooded landscape beneath the pan, and with a seated figure of an angel in Classical costume with long trumpet on the tail, the cock retaining screw chiselled with a grotesque mask, moulded finely figured rootwood half-stock (reduced from full length during its working life) inlaid with panels of pierced brass scrollwork, shaped brass mounts engraved with further scrollwork including raised trigger-guard bearing the motto 'Preter Me Nemo', brass barrel-band pierced with scrollwork inhabited by monster-heads, single turned brass ramrod-pipe, and later horn-tipped ramrod
46 3/8 in. (177.8 cm.) barrel
A FINE ITALIAN SNAPHAUNCE SPORTING GUN
BY LORENZONI, THE BARREL DATED '1718'
With two-stage barrel signed 'Deodato Sordi Fece Nel 1718' in silver on the octagonal breech, silver sights, tang inlaid with silver borderlines, signed rounded lock finely engraved with a hunter and his hounds in a wooded landscape beneath the pan, and with a seated figure of an angel in Classical costume with long trumpet on the tail, the cock retaining screw chiselled with a grotesque mask, moulded finely figured rootwood half-stock (reduced from full length during its working life) inlaid with panels of pierced brass scrollwork, shaped brass mounts engraved with further scrollwork including raised trigger-guard bearing the motto 'Preter Me Nemo', brass barrel-band pierced with scrollwork inhabited by monster-heads, single turned brass ramrod-pipe, and later horn-tipped ramrod
46 3/8 in. (177.8 cm.) barrel
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