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Lot 45*

A Caucasian 35-Bore Miquelet-Lock Pistol With Nielloed Silver Mounts
Dated 1262 A.H. Corresponding To 1845 A.D.

11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £3,500 inc. premium

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A Caucasian 35-Bore Miquelet-Lock Pistol With Nielloed Silver Mounts
Dated 1262 A.H. Corresponding To 1845 A.D.

With two-stage barrel entirely covered in silver, the forward section to the muzzle nielloed with a symmetrical design of foliage against a wrigglework ground, octagonal breech with running arabesques en suite, characteristic gold-damascened lock with illegible circular maker's stamp, wooden full stock covered in black leather, silver mounts nielloed en suite with the barrel, secured by pins and including side-plate, pommel-cap and barrel bands, the strap down the back of the butt nielloed behind the breech with the date and maker's name 'Umar' in nasta'liq, gold-damascened faceted button trigger, and no provision for a ramrod (pommel missing); together with the mounts of a Caucasian priming-flask, each of silver and nielloed with scrolling foliage against a wrigglework ground on the outside, the inner side of the nozzle with a serpent between a miquelet-lock pistol and a kindjal, and sprung tap with nielloed silver mount en suite and retaining its fabric tab woven with silver threads (2)
The first 29.3 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Literature
Oliver S. Pinchot, Arms of the Paladins, the Richard R. Wagner Jr. Collection..., 2014, p. 105, fig. 5-40 and p. 153, fig. 7-32

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