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Lot 46

A Balkan 14-Bore Miquelet-Lock Gun (Arnautka)
19th Century, Probably Albanian

27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Balkan 14-Bore Miquelet-Lock Gun (Arnautka)
19th Century, Probably Albanian

With two-stage sighted barrel with slightly flared muzzle and retained by six shaped brass barrel bands each chased with foliage either side of a central band of ropework, octagonal breech lightly engraved with foliage and struck with a barrelsmith's mark on the top flat behind the back-sight, engraved tang, characteristic lightly engraved lock, full stock of characteristic form almost entirely covered in panels engraved with designs of foliage, the fore-end with rectangular piercings, slender 'fish-tail' butt (minor damage) en suite and mounted along each side with shaped brass panels pierced and engraved with foliage, and set with small red glass beads and mother-of-pearl roundels (some missing), engraved iron trigger-guard with slender tang, two iron suspension rings, and original iron ramrod with turned baluster tip (some wear and rust patination overall)
124 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Provenance:
Believed to have been presented to H.H. Archduke Franz Ferdinand on his arrival in Port Said aboard the battlecruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth on 20 December 1892 during the first leg of his world tour (1892-1893)

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