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Lot 44*
A Fine Daghestani 28-Bore Miquelet-Lock PistolMid-19th Century
25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £10,560 inc. premium
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Mid-19th Century
Mid-19th Century
The barrel with sighting flat over most of its length, chiselled with fleur-de-lys shaped panels at the muzzle and breech and profusely decorated overall with scrolling arabesques, the latter with gold-lined barrelsmith's mark, long tang extending down the back of the butt, incorporating the back-sight and decorated en suite with the barrel overall, characteristic lock (minor rust patination) and trigger-plate also decorated en suite, wooden full stock entirely covered in silver-gilt panels chased with designs of flowerheads and foliage against nielloed grounds, the butt and rounded pommel (slightly loose) with silver beadwork borders, barrel-bands en suite with the stock, gold-damascened button trigger, and original ramrod (incomplete) with gold-damascened partly octagonal iron tip
39.5 cm. barrel
39.5 cm. barrel








