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Flint-lock pistol with ramrod

Flint-lock pistol, the barrel of round section. The first five inches from the breech forward are occupied by a panel containing ornament chiselled in low relief on a ground of matt gold, consisting of an allegorical female figure below which are two amorini supporting a cornucopia and at the base a female head between two cornucopiæ. The chiselled decoration was no doubt formerly blued along the top of the barrel, a flattened rib runs towards the muzzle signed in gold overlay:

LA ROCHE A PARIS

On either side of this the surface is richly encrusted with gold ornament in the form of caryatid figures, trophies and scrollwork on a blued ground. On either side of the silver foresight is the royal...

c. 1738 - c. 1744
Steel, gold, silver, whalebone and horn, chiselled, gilded, blued and carved
A1216
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