A RARE CASED FOUR BARRELLED PERCUSSION GUN BY L. MENICHETTI

origin

Faenza

dating

1865

dimensions

length 109.5 cm.

conditions

good

Group of four, smooth, twisted, 17 mm cal. barrels, with upper rib decorated with a different pattern, foresight, signature "L. MENICHETTI FAENZA No 6" and date "1865" under the barrels; tang engraved with floral motifs and with sight; percussion locks with short lock-plates, one signed "L. MENICHETTI FAENZA" and the other "INV.E E FABBRICATORE P.O", engraved en suite with tang, double hammers, one for each percussion, that can be loaded singularly or two by two (two triggers). Wooden half stock with German-silver mounts decorated en suite. Wooden ramrod with brass mounts. Kept in its original, wooden case with red-cloth lining and with part of the tools.

For Luigi Menichetti see Barbiroli "Repertorio Storico Degli Archibugieri Italiani del XIV al XX Secolo", pag. 365. Another four-barrelled rifle with Menichetti's signature, and with two smooth and two rifled barrels is described in Calamandrei 1973, signed under the barrels and dated "1861", four years before than this one, and featuring the same system of double hammers.

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