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A South Indian (Corg) 32-Bore Silver-Mounted Matchlock RifleMalabar, 18th/19th Century
29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,080 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA South Indian (Corg) 32-Bore Silver-Mounted Matchlock Rifle
Malabar, 18th/19th Century
Malabar, 18th/19th Century
With octagonal barrel (rust patinated) retaining traces of encrusted silver decoration at the muzzle and breech, rifled with eight grooves and retained by twenty-nine plain silver barrel bands, arched single aperture back-sight, pan with pivoting cover (inoperable), iron side-plates covered in silver around the match-holder and set on each side with four silver roundels and three cabochon agates, all within filigree borders, hardwood three-quarter stock, rounded butt set with punched shaped silver panels and roundels within beaded borders, foliate engraved silver sleeves around the breech and towards the muzzle, the latter forming a ramrod-entry, iron suspension ring, and original wooden ramrod with silver tip (some wear overall)
119.6 cm. barrel
119.6 cm. barrel
Footnotes
For a related example see Robert Elgood, Firearms Of The Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum, Kuwait, 1995, pp. 181 and 207-8, no. 124 (illustrated)








