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THBOrnate Italian Wheel-lock Pistol by Lazarino Cominazo
About Seller
250 Commercial Street
Manchester, NH 03101
United States
Amoskeag Auction Company is a specialty firearms auction company based in New Hampshire. Our experience and location have allowed us to create a highly advantageous environment for marketing collectible firearms at auction. This environment coupled with our high level of integrity and rigorous work ...Read more
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About Auction
LiveNov 17, 2018
Fine Antique and Collectable Sporting and Military Arms Featuring items from the collections of Cletus Klein, Tim Falvey, Dr. Jess Lewis, Dr. Louis C. March Jr., Roy Jinks & Others Amoskeag Auction Company amanda@amoskeagauction.com
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- Lot Description
About .60 cal., 20 3/4'' part octagon part round barrel with central medial rib and an oxidized bore. The iron surfaces of this lovely arm are an overall dull pewter gunmetal gray with the expected scattered oxidation and light pitting from the years. The barrel breech features a slightly dovetailed tang which is lightly engraved, with some raised relief scroll and background accent stippling at the breech end, also with an engraved-in-relief brass inlay of a woman's bust, in profile, sadly worn somewhat smooth from the years, but still evident. The center medial is incise engraved ''Lazarino'' and ''Cominazo'' flanked by loose open scroll. The barrel has a simple iron single leaf rear sight present, but no evidence of provision for a front sight; none of Cominazo's extant wheelocks have sights of any kind and it is likely the rear was a later addition by some ancient hunter. The lockplate is unadorned but the attached hardware is neatly, lightly chiseled. The cock is graceful and pierced with an upswept top jaw, its spring and bridle with nice file work. The trigger has a rearward flourish with a lightly chiseled pivoting safety catch. The arm is stocked in European Walnut with extensive silver wire inlays in overall coverage. These fine inlays are accented by antique ivory and mother-of-pearl inlays with floral and running game motifs. The most stunning feature of the arm is the left-side hunting scene, with ancient hunter astride his horse, spearing wild boar, the horse and pig in ivory, the hunter himself in mother-of-pearl. The ramrod tailpipe is charming as well, being a boars head, carved-in-relief with open mouth, devouring the ramrod. The butt has a carved-in-relief cap with a grotesque masque. There was a small sliver of ivory, lightly incise carved, surrounding the tang, two of the pieces are missing, and a bit of the wire inlay has been lost to the years, but none of this detracts from this fine weapon. The stock itself is otherwise very fine with only light handling marks from the years. The nosecap maybe an antique replacement and an older ramrod is present. It cannot be ascertained whether the mechanism is functional. The Cominazo family is a very prominent Gardone Val Trompia gunmaking family with a very long lineage of craftsmen. Purportedly, Angelo Lazarino, the patriarch active in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, signed his work ''Lazari Cominaz''. His son Lazaro (named after his grandfather Lazaro), is believed to be the one whose work is signed ''Lazarino Cominazo'', dating the arm to the mid-17th century. Overall a lovely ''fyrelock'' from this extremely prolific and talented family of gunmakers. (38876-2){ANTIQUE}
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