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A TOSCO-EMILIAN SNAPHAUNCE LOCK

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A fine example of Central Italian chiseled steel work in Neoclassical style, the elegant cock with scrolling vines and chiseled head of Bacchus. The frizzen stalk finely chiseled as a leafed flower stem, with the spring finial as the bud. A fine, stern, relief-chiseled countenance adorns the sliding pan cover. The lockplate engraved overall in floral motifs, the proximal end chiseled with the head of a sprite, with elongated teat-form terminal, the reverse of which is marked A B, ostensibly for Acquafresca Bargi. Functional.Latter 17th century.Light frosting to lockplate and wear to pan. For quite similar examples of these rare locks, see Nolfo di Carpegna,Notes of the Firearms of the Tosco-Emilian Apennines, in R. Held, ed., Arms & Armor Annual, 1973, Northfield: Digest, p. 227. Overall length 12.5 cm. Condition II

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