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An Austrian Or German Miquelet-Lock Gun With Turkish Barrel And LockLate 17th/18th Century
27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £687.50 inc. premium
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An Austrian Or German Miquelet-Lock Gun With Turkish Barrel And Lock
Late 17th/18th Century
Late 17th/18th Century
With three-stage barrel with flared muzzle carrying a rounded fore-sight and inlaid in silver with a petalled design (silver mostly missing), the breech and area behind the muzzle with silver-inlaid knot design, and the principle intersections each with applied silver band, arched single-aperature standing back-sight with silver band, plain tang, characteristic brass-mounted lock, figured full stock of hexagonal section (butt with some worming), plain brass mounts comprising butt-plate and spur trigger-guard, the latter with foliate finial, scroll trigger, and brass band at the fore-end (ramrod missing)
110.4 cm. barrel
110.4 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Literature:
Robert Elgood, The Arms Of Greece ..., 2009, pp. 181 and 326, no. 222 (illustrated in colour)
Probably from an Austrian Gewehrkammer and constructed utilising a barrel and lock captured at the relief of the siege of Vienna in 1683








