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XVI-XVII cent. A.D.
Large flint gun with long fluted barrel, edged at the base, the wooden part is entirely decorated with pearl ornaments and classical crowned heads. The stock misses three crownpieces, it ends in a pine cone. Sleek and elegant line with an ivory and pearl inlaid case, decorations depicting animals and hunting scenes (dogs, hares and birds) and human figures (Hercules fighting the Nemean lion) surrounded by a thin silver wire embedded in branches, and marked with the letters D.L. at the breech.
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