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Lot 63

A Caucasian 25-Bore Miquelet-Lock Pistol
Mid-19th Century

23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Caucasian 25-Bore Miquelet-Lock Pistol
Mid-19th Century

With two-stage barrel with slender longitudinal rib along the forward section and chiselled with a foliate scroll against a cross-hatched ground behind the gold-damascened muzzle (damascening worn), breech chiselled with foliage either side of the gilt top flat and deeply struck at the rear with gold-lined maker's stamp of Muhammad Ali in thuluth, broad tang extending down the back of the butt and covered with silver (incomplete) embossed and nielloed with a repeated design of foliage, characteristic gold-damascened russet lock damascened in gold beneath with pseudo owner's name in Arabic calligraphy, wooden full stock covered in black leather (damaged in front of the lock), mounts en suite secured by pins and including spherical pommel (loose, some damage), three barrel bands and fore-end cap with false ramrod, and gold-damascened button trigger (wear overall)
30.2 cm. barrel

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