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A Turkish 25-Bore Miquelet-Lock RifleLate 18th Century
23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,250 inc. premium
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Late 18th Century
Late 18th Century
With swamped finely twist octagonal slighted barrel decorated with engraved gold and silver foliage at the muzzle and breech, the latter with brass-lined barrelsmith's mark, rifled with nine grooves, and retained by seven engraved silver barrel bands, the top flat in front of the breech with gold-inlaid inscription 'Its owner is Suleyman Agha' in naskh, arched double-aperture back-sight inlaid with gold lines, tang with folding six-aperture long-range sight, characteristic lock encrusted with gold and silver foliage within beaded borders, full stock (some damage, incomplete in front of the lock) profusely inlaid along each side of the fore-stock with a row of white and dark horn stars between white horn lines bordered by small roundels of brass and dark horn, the lock area and flared segmented butt en suite and enriched with shaped horn panels, some stained green, and with a medial band of dome-headed brass nails (some incomplete, some missing), and button trigger (inlays incomplete, butt-plate and ramrod missing)
106 cm. barrel
106 cm. barrel








