A fine important silver mounted hunting gun c 1700 with lock by Ottavio Azzon and barrel by Vicenso Cominazzo. The butt cap decorated with hound and stag, the butt with chin rest, rounded lock marked OTTAVIA AZZON iron carved with a grotesque mask behind the cock and the same on the cock, side plate in plate carved with hounds and stag in foliate, c 86,2 cm long luxury two-stage barrel in calibre c 16,5 mm carved with herringbone pattern. By the tang and where the octagonal barrel turns into a round barrel a fine grotesque mask in high relief. The barrel is carved with VICENZO COMINAZZO. The horn tipped wooden ramrod is held by three pipes with the two back pipes in silver and the fron one in brass welded to the barrel. The stock is chequered around the tang. Azzoni Ottavio worked in Brecia c 1690–1710 and Vicenso Cominazzo died 1696 in Gardone Val Trompia.
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