Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - A Highly Important Inscribed Polish-Italian Fintlock Blunderbuss, dated 1733

Matchlock · 22nd April 2010, 12:09 PM

Hi Fernando,

The inscription states that this blunderbuss was a present by both the citizens and senate of the city of Elblag, and by the Count of Czapski to King Stanislaus I in memory of the beginning of the War of the Polish Succession in 1733-5.

You are of course perfectly right, my learned friend: this remarkable style of decoration in the French-Italian taste was copied all over Europe and came to be the leading style of the first half of the 18th century. There are certainly fine samples in the Real Armería as well.

Best,
Michael

22nd April 2010, 12:09 PM	#3
Matchlock (deceased) Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking Posts: 4,310	Hi Fernando, The inscription states that this blunderbuss was a present by both the citizens and senate of the city of Elblag, and by the Count of Czapski to King Stanislaus I in memory of the beginning of the War of the Polish Succession in 1733-5. You are of course perfectly right, my learned friend: this remarkable style of decoration in the French-Italian taste was copied all over Europe and came to be the leading style of the first half of the 18th century. There are certainly fine samples in the Real Armería as well. Best, Michael