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Description: | Artist: Lazaro, barrel maker; Date(s): 1690; Classification(s): weapons, flint-lock pistol, engraving, pistol with dagger blade, with engraved, inlaid and chiselled decoration; Acquisition: bequeathed by Kennard, Arthur Norris, 1996-01-22, Bequeathed by Arthur Norris Kennard in memory of his late wife, Mrs Helen Lee Washington Kennard [M.1 & A & B-1996]
Description: Flint-lock pistol with dagger blade, Italian (Bargi, Emilia), dated 1690. Barrel maker's name: 'LAZARO'. Pistol: 'ACQVA FRESCA', probably Matteo (1651-1738).
Steel, the wood stock inlaid with silver. Barrel octagonal at the breech than polygonal for half an inch then round, chiselled at the breech and mid-length with acanthus foliage. The top flat of the breech section is inscribed with the barrel maker's name 'LAZARO', the breech strap being engraved '38'. The lock is engraved with foliage, masks and a terminal figure and with the name of the maker 'ACQVA FRESCA', the inner side of the lockplate being engraved with the date '1690'. The cock is secured to the tumbler by a bolt and nut, the head of the bolt chiselled with a cherub's head. The frizzen incorporates a safety device: on pressing a catch on the back of the steel it may be hinged back leaving a separate cover over the pan. The stock has steel mounts engraved with animals, birds and insects; the buttcap is chiselled with a grotesque mask, another mask forming the escutcheon plate. The stock is inlaid with scroll work in silver, there is no counterplate, the space being filled with silver foliage incorporating a terminal figure threatening a monster with a spear. Pressure on the trigger-guard releases a catch allowing the pistol to be separated into two halves, the butt then serving for the grip of a dagger blade of stiff square section which is concealed below the barrel in the fore-end. The pistol when acquired had a steel ramrod tipped with the figure of a monkey in silver. This was replaced by a wooden rod with plain steel tip (A & B respectively). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | flint-lock pistol Lazaro weapons | Temporal: | name=late 17th Century; start=1690; end=1690 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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