"Flintlock Rifle Board, Brescia"
Beautiful platinum rifle flint wrought iron, decorated with light relief characters, children's heads, fantastic animals' heads and other;The main spring has undergone an old repair (welding) in the middle; the date of 1740 engraved near the trigger probably corresponds to the year of this repair, as it was sometimes customary to date a restoration, and considering that this plate is earlier than that date.
Object with the characteristic ornamentation of Brescia,
Italy, beginning of the 18th century
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