BAL10674 Air gun, 1735-40 (walnut with silver and brass); 137 long cm; Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK; (add.info.: Carved walnut with chased and engraved silver, brass made by Johann Gottfried Kolbe probably for George II The silver panel inlaid in the stock shows a lion and an eagle, the latter symbolising Jupiter. May celebrate alliance of Prussia and Britain against France during the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48) In 1743 George II led a British and Prussian army successfully against France at the Battle of Dettingen, the last time a British monarch led troops into battle.); out of copyright.