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€ 900 - 1.200
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€ 2.250
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dating: Second half of the 18th Century provenance: Bologna, Smoothbore, two-stage, 10 mm cal. barrel, octagonal and round with rings at the girdle. Fine flintlock with flat lock plate engraved with the effigy of a lady and an arquebusier, head of the cock screw and batterie decorated with faces in relief. Marked with 'brento' in small letters at the rear side. Working mechanism. Wooden full stock (fracture repaired at the base) carved with some floral motifs. Brass mounts. Pommel and trigger guard with portraits of ladies in relief, the former also carved with grotesque decorations. Counterplate and escutcheon also pierced with effigies of harpies or sirens, the former also with a portrait, the latter with a shield. Francesco Negroni (c. 1725-1775), progenitor of the dynasty of the same name, is the initiator of a decorative style which became very popular in the Bolognese Apennines, all the way to Anghiari and beyond. It is widely known that most of Francesco's arms are marked only with the inscription 'brento' inside the lock, in italics and without capital letter. Probably because he signed the pairs disjunctively (one with the name, the other with the place) or because he thought it was sufficient to sign only with the place. Cf. 'Repertorio Storico degli Archibugiari Italiani' by B. Barbiroli, pp. 742-745. length 36,5 cm.
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