Cap gun

steel, bronze, brass, silver, gold; engravings, barrel length ca. 7.8 cm, overall length 19 cm, threaded barrel exit ca. 11 mm.
Western Europe, 2nd quarter of 19th century.
Steel barrel, threaded, oxidized (shaped like an artillery barrel), with two gold scrolls; engraved and written in gold (rubbed) rosette on the back. Flask with engraved floral motifs; along the back a belt with a shell pattern; oval head, in the form of a walnut shell. The cock of the cap-shaped breech of oxidized steel, in the shape of a dolphin; elements of the breech plate engraved in floral motifs, as is the trigger guard; on the back and underneath - semi-plastic mascarons with boar heads.