Description
Small marine flintlock blunderbuss, strong two-register barrel, bronze, octagonal then round, ovalizing; silver-plated breech tail, lightly engraved; round-bodied, plain, ice-polished lock, signed: "Cassagnard à Nantes", swan-neck hammer, pebble battery; cut-out iron fittings engraved with foliage; walnut stock carved with a foliate flower at the rear of the breech tail and profusely embellished with silver filigree; wooden ramrod with brown horn tip; length 62.5 cm. Late 18th, early 19th century. Very good condition. CASSAGNARD or CASSAIGNARD in Nantes, harquebusier and fourbisseur, 1774/1812.
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Small marine flintlock blunderbuss, strong two-register barrel, bronze, octagonal then round, ovalizing; silver-plated breech tail, lightly engraved; round-bodied, plain, ice-polished lock, signed: "Cassagnard à Nantes", swan-neck hammer, pebble battery; cut-out iron fittings engraved with foliage; walnut stock carved with a foliate flower at the rear of the breech tail and profusely embellished with silver filigree; wooden ramrod with brown horn tip; length 62.5 cm. Late 18th, early 19th century. Very good condition. CASSAGNARD or CASSAIGNARD in Nantes, harquebusier and fourbisseur, 1774/1812.
