SIMONIN CLAUDE ( ACTIF CA.1680-1690 )
From a suite of 8 designs for ornaments of gun fittings entitled 'Plusiers pieces Et Ornements Darquebuzerie Les plus en Usage tire des Oubrages de Languedoc arquebuziers Du Roy et Dautres Ornement .....' . French, 1685.Plate 2.Nice print with margins, dirt on the right side, some ink smudges, scratches on the back in the outer borders. Guilmard : p.109, 61 (1).Donald La Rocca 'Sorting out Simonin: Pattern Books for Decorated Firearms, 1684-1705' in C. Blair et al Studies in European Arms and Armor, Wisbech, 1992, pp. 184-207...