Flint gun, Part of a couple. Made in Liège, but very Dutch. The lock is engraved with leaves, a branch and a signature. A ridge runs across the barrel, the back part is engraved with leafy scrolls and a hunter in a justaucorps after 17th century fashion and armed with a straight heart catcher, marked at the bottom with three buttons in a triangle, no visor device. The burr walnut stock is simply cut. The iron fittings consist of two loading rod sleeves, a trigger guard with edges, a special screw plate in the shape of a sea hose with the twists in guilloche, an unadorned thumb plate in the sha

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