Flint gun with ivory drawer, Part of a couple. The lock is engraved with floral scrolls and a signature. The loop is engraved in bas-relief with leafy tendrils and grotesque masks and a bird on a branch, a ring runs around the trumpet, marked with from below. The solid ivory stock has simple carving, between the handle and the butt knob are three bands of ivory and ebony, the butt knob is circumcised all around like a man's head with a mustache and a helmet on with a stored helmet flap at the front, the same flap at the back and grotesque heads on the sides, the eyes are inlaid


Flint gun with ivory drawer, Part of a couple. The lock is engraved with floral scrolls and a signature. The loop is engraved in bas-relief with leafy tendrils and grotesque masks and a bird on a branch, a ring runs around the trumpet, marked with from below. The solid ivory stock has simple carving, between the handle and the butt knob are three bands of ivory and ebony, the butt knob is circumcised all around like a man's head with a mustache and a helmet on with a stored helmet flap at the front, the same flap at the back and grotesque heads on the sides, the eyes are inlaid with ebony. The iron fittings consist of, among other things, a brace-shaped screw plate, the rear part of which is engraved like a hose., Jan Hermans, Maastricht, 1660 - 1665, ivory, ebony (wood), iron (metal), engraving, l cm l cm d mm w 815 gr


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