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Lot 66
A Turkish 28-Bore Miquelet-Lock Short Rifle (Shishana)Late 18th Century
17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,500 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Turkish 28-Bore Miquelet-Lock Short Rifle (Shishana)
Late 18th Century
Late 18th Century
With finely twist damascus swamped octagonal barrel in three stages, rifled with seven grooves and retained by three border engraved silver barrel bands, the top flat at the breech with gold-lined barrelsmith's stamp of Seyyid Mehmed bin Mustafa in nasta'liq, arched triple aperture back sight, plain tang, characteristic lock with gold-encrusted decoration, figured Circassian walnut full stock inlaid along the fore-stock (some damage, upper edges chipped) and on the butt with small brass nails and roundels of brass and dark horn, the segmented flared faceted butt and the area around the tang inlaid en suite and veneered with panels of staghorn or bone between further slender panels, some stained green, steel button trigger, fore-end cap en suite with the butt, and later wooden ramrod (butt-plate missing)
53.2 cm. barrel
53.2 cm. barrel
Footnotes
For related examples sold in these Rooms, see Antique Arms & Armour..., 24 April 2013, lot 63; Eastern Arms & Armour From the Richard R. Wagner Jr. Collection, 24 April 2015, lot 244; and Antique Arms & Armour..., 25 November 2015, lot 55








