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Wheel-lock gun with ramrod

Wheel-lock gun, the barrel of circular section, blued, and decorated with three panels of elaborate Renaissance ornament finely chiselled in low relief on a gilt ground. The compositions include at the breech a figure of Actæon, at the muzzle Bacchus, and in the middle panel, Diana. The design is further enriched by being piqué with gold dots. Between the breech panel and that midway along the barrel the surface is longitudinally ridged and fluted, the flutes gilt. Backsight and gilded brass foresight. Near the vent is an indistinct mark.

The lock has an external wheel with flat steel casing, chiselled with swags of fruit and a trophy of arms. Lock-plate chiselled with a representation of a be...

c. 1620
Steel, gold, copper alloy, snake-wood, antler, ivory and wood, blued, chiselled and gilded
A1090
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