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A Balkan 16-Bore Miquelet-Lock Gun (Arnautka)19th Century, Probably Albanian
27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £650 inc. premium
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A Balkan 16-Bore Miquelet-Lock Gun (Arnautka)
19th Century, Probably Albanian
19th Century, Probably Albanian
With octagonal sighted barrel with punched borders at the slightly flared petalled muzzle and retained by a foliate engraved brass barrel band, the top flat at the breech stamped with circular barrelsmith's mark and punched spurious inscription behind the back-sight, foliate engraved tang, characteristic lightly engraved lock with maker's mark, full stock of characteristic form (fore-stock incomplete along each side) almost entirely covered in iron panels secured by pins and lightly engraved with scrollwork in places, slender 'fish-tail' butt en suite, engraved trigger-guard with slender baluster tang, two iron suspension rings, and original iron ramrod with turned baluster tip
137 cm. barrel
137 cm. barrel
Footnotes
For more information see Robert Elgood, The Arms Of Greece ..., 2009, pp. 162-167








