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A Balkan 28-Bore Miquelet-Lock Gun (Dzerferdar)17th/18th Century, Boka Kotorska Or Fojnica
27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
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A Balkan 28-Bore Miquelet-Lock Gun (Dzerferdar)
17th/18th Century, Boka Kotorska Or Fojnica
17th/18th Century, Boka Kotorska Or Fojnica
With Herzegovinian two-stage barrel of finely etched twist damascus pattern inlaid with symmetrical designs of silver arabesques at the muzzle, girdle and breech, the forward section of hog's back form with slightly flared muzzle issueing from a stylised dragon-head carrying the brass fore-sight between its silver eyes, the girdle overlaid with a silver band between beaded borders, and the breech of octagonal section struck with a barrelsmith's mark at the rear, plain tang, characteristic plain lock with some chiselled decoration, figured full stock inlaid with three bone panels around the barrel tang set with dark wood and brass roundels in a chintamani pattern, the rounded butt inlaid overall with shaped mother-of-pearl panels and roundels enriched with brass wire, nails and pellets, the inlays to the rear set in lines between shims of light and dark wood, a broad brass band behind engraved with running arabesques on a hatched ground, shaped side-plate en suite, sling loop and side-nails each on a pierced brass floret-shaped washer, European trigger and brass trigger-guard, the latter engraved on the bow with the figure of a Turk holding a falchion, brass fore-end mounts and turned ramrod-pipes, sling loops, and original ramrod with faceted iron tip
138.8 cm. barrel
138.8 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Exhibited:
Howard Ricketts and Phillipe Missillier, Splendour Des Armes Orientales, d'Acte-Expo, Paris, 4 May-3 July 1988, pp. 30-31 and 60, no. 28 (illustrated in colour)
Literature:
Robert Elgood, The Arms Of Greece ..., 2009, pp. 73 and 319, no. 056 (illustrated in colour)
A similar example is in Bucharest Military Museum (MM Bu 27608)








