Flint gun with ivory drawer, Part of a couple. The lock, which is blued on the inside, is decorated with a single branch, a bird on a branch and a signature on the lock plate. On the barrel are the letters GMA embossed with gold. The solid ivory flask is embossed and ends after a band of ivory-inlaid ebony in the round-cut flask in the shape of the bearded head of Hercules with the head of the Nemean lion as a helmet. The iron fittings include an ivory loading stick whose head is separated by an ebony band such as is between the handle and the butt knob, (story of) Hercules (Heracles), Charles

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Photo credit: © Gibon Art / Alamy / Afripics
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