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Lot 53

A Persian 22-Bore Percussion Pistol
Mid-19th Century

27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Persian 22-Bore Percussion Pistol
Mid-19th Century

With russet barrel of hog's back form slightly flared at the muzzle, the latter inlaid with a gold band and two slender gold lines, and with a symmetrical design of gold-damascened interlaced arabesques behind, the breech inlaid en suite within gold bands and lines, including owner's name 'Sahibulin Muhammad Khan Radizi (?) in gold nastaliq script, and gold-lined barrelsmith's mark 'Work of Wali', nipple-housing with platinum plug and engraved with a line of guilloche, long tang extending down the back of the butt and decorated with punched gold foliage within line borders, border engraved flat lock in the English manner engraved with scrolling foliage and signed 'Hajji Ismail' in gold nastaliq script within a gold cartouche, hammer engraved en suite, figured rootwood stock (fore-end partly replaced) with rounded butt, the latter with an iron ring for suspension, trigger-guard en suite with the lock and with pineapple finial, and no provision for a ramrod
31 cm. barrel

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