A flintlock shotgun Brescia, beginning of the 18th century. Slightly shortened smooth bore barrel in mm calibre, lavishly chiselled and gilt with figurative and strapwork decorations at the breech. The barrel modified and not corresponding to the stock. Chiselled and engraved flintlock, assembled from parts and multiply modified. Carved full stock, the butt carved with two lions in mid-relief on both sides, illegibly signed on the right side, inscribed with "Brescia fecit" on the left side. The root of the forestock designed like the head of, Additional-Rights-Clearance-Info-Not-Available

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