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Lot 58

A Balkan 20-Bore Miquelet-Lock Gun (Arnautka)
19th Century, Probably Albanian

20 April 2011, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £720 inc. premium

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A Balkan 20-Bore Miquelet-Lock Gun (Arnautka)
19th Century, Probably Albanian

With russet two-stage barrel engraved with line decoration at the slightly bulbous muzzle and retained by three foliate engraved barrel bands (one missing), octagonal breech (back-sight missing) stamped with spurious signature along the top flat, plain tang, russet characteristic lock, full stock of characteristic form entirely covered in iron panels engraved with designs of foliage against punched grounds, the fore-end with rectangular piercings and set with brass roundels of geometric design, slender curved 'fish-tail' butt (minor damage) mounted in white-metal retained by pins and embossed and chased with foliate scrollwork involving three foliate roundels on each side, iron trigger-guard with long slender tang, two suspension loops, and iron ramrod
129.5 cm. barrel

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