Comprising a Balkan 25-bore flintlock holster pistol (Ledenica), with barrel (some pitting) overlaid at the breech with chased brass foliage, engraved flat bevelled lock (side-nails missing), heavy white-metal full stock (tang plate missing) with curved butt chased overall in low relief with foliage and trophies, all within nielloed ribbon-like borders inhabited by a bird in front of the trigger-guard, spirally-fluted bulbous pommel, trigger-guard and muzzle-sleeve en suite with the stock, trigger cast as the figure of an Epirot, and false ramrod; a Turkish flintlock blunderbuss, with barrel flared at the muzzle and encrusted with white-metal foliage along its entire length, flat bevelled lock (cock missing) and mounts all decorated en suite, moulded figured full stock carved with foliage on the butt and inlaid with white-metal wire scrollwork, and false ramrod; a Turkish 13-bore miquelet-lock carbine (barrel and lock rust patinated), with Circassian walnut stock (worn, minor worming, butt-plate and ramrod missing); an Albanian 18-bore miquelet-lock pistol, with plain barrel, lightly engraved lock with small maker's stamp, carved hardwood full stock, the butt covered in silver filigree set with clustered beadwork along the back enriched with a red coral (corallium rubrum) and a turquoise bead, silver pommel (spurs missing) deeply cast with foliage against a nielloed ground, steel trigger-guard, and embossed white-metal muzzle-sleeve with false ramrod en suite; a Persian miquelet-lock pistol, with twist barrel slightly flared at the muzzle, the breech struck with a barrelsmith's mark between chiselled fleur-de-lys, plain lock with brass-lined maker's stamp, figured full stock with chequered rounded butt, steel mounts including butt-cap with suspension swivel, and no provision for a ramrod; and a pair of Turkish percussion holster pistols, converted from flintlock, with two-stage russet barrels, engraved locks, full stocks (one with cracks) each inlaid with white-metal wire scrollwork, steel mounts including silver-encrusted spurred pommels, and false ramrods; together with parts only of two flintlock pistols, the fish-tail butt only of an Indian matchlock jezail, and a Persian priming-flask, with steel body of ovoidal section curving up to form the nozzle, and with gold-damascened sprung tap carrying two brass suspension loops (loss of gold, surface rust and pitting) (11)
The first 21.7 cm. barrel