Wheellock with archaic steel and walnut plate

Wheellock with archaic steel and walnut plate

The pistol has a walnut case inlaid with silver branch thread in a Gothic fashion. Its bulb barrel is decorated with sober engravings. On the handle, an X is inlaid, which recalls the capital letters of the illuminated manuscripts. According to the bladed wheapons experts, Gaibi, Lanvin, Hayvard, Boccia, such plates are to be attributed to the archaic Sicula-Spanish production; according to Ciro Fiori, it would be more exact to place the pistol in the Sicilian gun making art. The stock, the wooden and metallic parts are decorated with very delicate linear inserts. The basic part of the barrel is prismatic.