A beautiful flintlock hunting gun by Carmine Papa dating:... Lot 40

A beautiful flintlock hunting gun by Carmine Papa dating: about 1810 provenance: Lancusi, Smoothbore, two-stage, 18 mm cal barrel with ring and acanthus leaves at the girdle, swallow-tailed front sight, keeping most of the original browning; tang engraved with floral motifs; flintlock signed 'CARMI. PAPA', slightly engraved and carved. Wooden full stock (a very small restoration) carved at the fore-end cap, checked hand rest and grooved butt. Filigree inlays with floral motifs up to the center of the butt, checkering with stylized lilies. Beautiful bronze mounts partly pierced or in bas relief with floral motifs, the pierced parts with granulated background. Browned butt-plate. Iron ramrod with carved tip. For Carmine Papa see Barbiroli 'Repertorio Storico Degli Archibugieri Italiani dal XIV al XX Secolo'; Clueb, Bologna, 2012, page 407. length 118.5 cm.