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Lot 42
A Rare Balkan 15-Bore All-Metal Flintlock Gun (Kariophili) With Nielloed Silver StockCirca 1840, Probably Boka
11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £8,750 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Rare Balkan 15-Bore All-Metal Flintlock Gun (Kariophili) With Nielloed Silver Stock
Circa 1840, Probably Boka
Circa 1840, Probably Boka
The barrel with sighting rib over most of its length to the muzzle, chiselled with a grotesque mask at the breech end, and retained by six shaped barrel bands each embossed and chased with foliate, the rear one incorporating a grooved foliate back-sight, breech chiselled in low relief with foliage, a martial trophy and the figure of Victory above a barrelsmith's mark, a tree between stars, three further marks 'DT' beneath, plain tang, flat bevelled lock lightly engraved with foliage and with roller, full stock and fish-tail butt profusely decorated overall in relief with cast and chased running foliage, flower-heads, scallop shells, trophies of arms and double-headed eagles, all against finely punched grounds, the fore-stock enriched with nielloed diamond-shaped panels, the butt with nielloed ribbon work and foliate borders, trigger-guard en suite, foliate trigger with monster-head, rectangular suspension loops, and original steel ramrod (barrel and lock with some wear and light pitting)
109.6 cm. barrel
109.6 cm. barrel
Footnotes
For a related example dating to the reign of King Othon of Greece (1832-1862), see Robert Elgood, The Arms of Greece..., 2009, p.289, pl.386








