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A Turkish 20-Bore Miquelet-Lock Short RifleLate 18th Century
30 April 2014, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £4,750 inc. premium
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A Turkish 20-Bore Miquelet-Lock Short Rifle
Late 18th Century
Late 18th Century
With finely twist damascus octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, inlaid with engraved brass around the muzzle and retained by a thick silver barrel band pierced with arabesques, arched back-sight en suite with the muzzle, tang covered in foliate engraved brass, characteristic lock en suite, figured Circassian walnut full stock inlaid with shaped bone panels and patterns of small roundels of brass and dark horn, flared faceted butt profusely inlaid en suite, and enriched with bone lines and rows of dome-headed silver nails, deep dark horn butt-plate en suite, and hinged circular horn butt-trap cover beneath inlaid with a geometric roundel of brass and horn, iron sling loop, button trigger, bone fore-end cap, and later horn-tipped ramrod
72.2 cm. barrel
72.2 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Cf. a similar example sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms & Armour ..., 24 April 2013, lot 63








