Lot Essay
For a discussion on Malay long guns see Anthony C. Tirri, Islamic Weapons Maghrib to Moghul, USA, 2003, p. 410.
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MALAYSIA, 19TH CENTURY
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A MALAY MATCHLOCK LONG GUN
MALAYSIA, 19TH CENTURY
Of typical form with heavy brass furniture including a trigger and serpentine with stepped temple design, a dark wood butt with copper plating at end, the extended lock and trigger plates with elegant palmette motifs on either end, the trigger guard with engraved quatrefoil design, both sides of rifle butt with applied copper and brass floral and quatrefoil appliqués, tin plated faceted barrel attached to lacquered wood stock with three silver brackets, with ivory headed ramrod
52in. (132.1cm.) long
MALAYSIA, 19TH CENTURY
Of typical form with heavy brass furniture including a trigger and serpentine with stepped temple design, a dark wood butt with copper plating at end, the extended lock and trigger plates with elegant palmette motifs on either end, the trigger guard with engraved quatrefoil design, both sides of rifle butt with applied copper and brass floral and quatrefoil appliqués, tin plated faceted barrel attached to lacquered wood stock with three silver brackets, with ivory headed ramrod
52in. (132.1cm.) long
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