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Caption: Flint gun turned into rifle, in empire style. The front part of the lock is very long, the rooster is engraved with a cornucopia, the final plate with a swan and a signature. The Damascus loop is browned and fills out at both the front and back, marked on the back with the coat of arms of Amsterdam and engraved with the signature, equipped with an iron rear visor, a silver visor grain and a sliding loop-haft. The stock has a curved handle that ends in a flat stock button, the handle is grooved crosswise and inlaid with silver buttons. The silver fittings include a blued thumb plate with an engraved, stylized calyx, and a forked trigger guard engraved with Amorini, just like the cover plate at the bottom of the flask, the ribs loading rod is provided with a cow horn cap and an iron ring., Lambertus Michaelis Thone, Amsterdam, c. 1800, steel (alloy), iron (metal), silver (metal), baleen, horn (animal material), inlay (process), l 33.9 cm l 19.3 cm d 13.4 mm l 18.5 cm
Credit: Album / quintlox
Image size: 3750 × 2168 px | 23.3 MB
Print size: 31.8 × 18.4 cm | 1476.4 × 853.5 in (300 dpi)