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Lot 59*
A Sardinian 70-Bore Miquelet-Lock Gun, And A Turkish 28-Bore Miquelet-Lock Rifle18th/19th Century
20 April 2011, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £780 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Sardinian 70-Bore Miquelet-Lock Gun, And A Turkish 28-Bore Miquelet-Lock Rifle
18th/19th Century
18th/19th Century
The first with slender tapering octagonal barrel, tang (bent), indistinctly signed lock sparsely engraved with foliage, full stock (fore-end damaged and incomplete, heel of butt damaged) with pinned steel plates along the fore-end chased and engraved with foliage, the butt (iron comb missing) with pinned iron panel beneath pierced with scrollwork, and iron border around the butt-plate pierced and chased with foliage, iron mounts comprising side-plate elaborately chased with foliage and with star-shaped piercings at the back, plain butt-plate, chiselled trigger-guard, and no provision for a ramrod (wear and rust patination overall); the second with russet swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with six grooves and retained by five brass barrel bands, plain tang and characteristic lock, Circassian walnut full stock (fore-end incomplete) with swelling faceted butt (damaged) encircled by a medial brass band (incomplete) between borders of brass nails and roundels of brass and dark horn (many missing), and button trigger (ramrod missing) (2)
128.4 cm. and 83.3 cm. barrels
128.4 cm. and 83.3 cm. barrels








