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Lot 85

A Persian 20-Bore Percussion Pistol
Mid-19th Century

23 May 2018, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Persian 20-Bore Percussion Pistol
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

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