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Lot 80Ф,Y
An Indian 40-Bore Matchlock Gun 19th Century
23 May 2018, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £562.50 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistAn Indian 40-Bore Matchlock Gun
19th Century
19th Century
With sighted barrel retaining faint traces of gold-damascened decoration overall (some pitting), and retained by four brass barrel bands, the muzzle with brass mount cast as a monster-head engraved with foliage, carrying the fore-sight between its eyes, and with spirally twist collar between chequered bands, brass side-plates and rear barrel band pricked with running designs of flowering foliage, a slender strap extending along each side of the butt en suite, hardwood full stock inlaid overall with bone or ivory quatrefoils each centred on a dot within a circle, the butt with rows of quatrefoils and dots en suite (minor losses and replacements) and all within line borders, brass trigger pierced as an arabesque, scrolled match-holder, brass sling loops, and brass-mounted steel ramrod
86 cm. barrel
86 cm. barrel








