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A Persian 20-Bore Percussion Pistol Mid-19th Century
23 May 2018, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £350 inc. premium
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Mid-19th Century
Mid-19th Century
With earlier twist swamped barrel with sighting groove along the top and gold foliate scroll at the muzzle, the breech chiselled with foliage, encrusted in gold with symmetrical scrollwork and arabesques, and with indistinct gold-lined barrelsmith's mark, long engraved tang with silver back-sight, foliate scroll engraved lock and hammer in English taste and signed in Persian script, highly figured Circassion half-stock, steel trigger-guard and fore-end cap engraved en suite with the tang, and no provision for ramrod
29.7 cm. barrel
29.7 cm. barrel








