Flint gun, Part of a couple. The lock is decorated with chiseled relief, partly against a granular background and partly covered with brass, the rooster is decorated with a brass head with a tiara-like headdress, the lock plate is engraved with UTRECHT and a mark in the shape of a crowned heart, and marked on the inside with an H. The barrel is stamped on the back with the arms of Utrecht and on the bottom again with the arms of Utrecht and a crowned heart, decorated in the same way as the castle, where the central motif is a column with two birds, signed with PENTERMAN, provided with a silver visor grain in the form of a grotesque mask. The flask has been cut with, among other things, accolade. The previously gilded yellow brass fittings with embossed relief embellishments consist of ajour-worked symmetrical screw plate with a mask flanked by griffins, a trigger guard with relief embellishment against a granular background, including a mask, a crowned thumb plate with birds on either side and a mask below, and a butt cap with the same decoration as the trigger guard and at the bottom a grotesque mask on an octagonal base, the loading stick has a brass cap., Barend Penterman, Utrecht, c. 1720 - c. 1725, brass (alloy), silver (metal), gilding (material), wood (plant material), iron (metal), gilding, l 49 cm l 32.3 cm d 15.7 mm
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