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A Heavy 12-Bore Matchlock Musket
Signed...Shigekatsu With Further Inscription And Dated 1848

11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Heavy 12-Bore Matchlock Musket
Signed...Shigekatsu With Further Inscription And Dated 1848

With octagonal barrel inlaid in silver with two large characters and encrusted with numerous copper kanemono in two different sizes depicting coiled rain dragons, block-shaped back-sight, tulip-shaped muzzle, brass back-action lock with iron serpentine encrusted with silver drops (pan cover missing), cherrywood full stock, and shaped brass trigger pierced with a hole (ramrod missing)
76 cm. barrel

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