Three-stage part-round barrels with simple silver fore-sights, central sections engraved with stylized dolphins, and fluted breech sections marked "LAZARINO", the bright-finished rounded lock plates marked "GIO. BATTA. ZANETTI", feature deeply chased scroll designs at lock plate tails, sculpted pans and frizzens, the cocks with extraordinary deep chisel-work of scrolls and other flourishes, mounted on fine varnished walnut stocks set with numerous pierced and bright polished plaques each in-turn backed by thin sheet brass to highlight the pierced work of the bright steel, the triggers in the form of seated apes (simians). For a similar example of this work, as noted by Gusler and Lavin, see Odescalchi Collection (62-63) Provenance: Acquired by Robert Bretherton, November 1998 Clay P. Bedford Collection Sam Bloomfield Collection, Palm Springs, 1970 Exhibition: Decorated Firearms: 1540 – 1870 From the Collection of Clay P. Bedford, curated and catalogued by Wallace B. Gusler and Dr. James D. Lavin, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1977

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