IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 19616 accession number: M.1 & A & B-1996 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Flint-lock pistol with dagger blade, Italian (Bargi, Emilia), dated 1690. Barrel maker's name: 'LAZARO'. Pistol: 'ACQVA FRESCA', probably Matteo (1651-1738). Steel, the wood stock inlaid with silver. Barrel octagonal at the breech than polygonal for half an inch then round, chiselled at the breech and mid-length with acanthus foliage. The top flat of the breech section is inscribed with the barrel maker's name 'LAZARO', the breech strap being engraved '38'. The lock is engraved with foliage, masks and a terminal figure and with the name of the maker 'ACQVA FRESCA', the inner side of the lockplate being engraved with the date '1690'. The cock is secured to the tumbler by a bolt and nut, the head of the bolt chiselled with a cherub's head. The frizzen incorporates a safety device: on pressing a catch on the back of the steel it may be hinged back leaving a separate cover over the pan. The stock has steel mounts engraved with animals, birds and insects; the buttcap is chiselled with a grotesque mask, another mask forming the escutcheon plate. The stock is inlaid with scroll work in silver, there is no counterplate, the space being filled with silver foliage incorporating a terminal figure threatening a monster with a spear. Pressure on the trigger-guard releases a catch allowing the pistol to be separated into two halves, the butt then serving for the grip of a dagger blade of stiff square section which is concealed below the barrel in the fore-end. The pistol when acquired had a steel ramrod tipped with the figure of a monkey in silver. This was replaced by a wooden rod with plain steel tip (A & B respectively). title: flint-lock pistol NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased at Puttick & Simpson, London, 1945. Details of sale not recorded; it was bought by the testator's wife on his behalf LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Arthur Norris Kennard in memory of his late wife, Mrs Helen Lee Washington Kennard STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/19616 PEOPLE ------------------- cherub's head figure SUBJECTS ------------------- spear animals birds monster insects foliage spear animals birds monster insects foliage CATEGORIES ------ category: weapons DATING ------ creation date: 1690 - 1690 creation date earliest: 1690 creation date latest: 1690 culture: 17th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Lazaro maker: Acqua Fresca, Matteo DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 25.8 dimension: Weight units: g value: 600 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Essential Horse CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the A.N. Kennard Collection of Arms and Armour The Fitzwilliam Museum, Annual Report 1996 Armes et Souvenirs Historiques ---