A FINE COSSAK MIQUELET-LOCK PISTOL with slender barrel retaining traces of an inscription at the breech, gold-encrusted lock retaining some of its original blued finish (top jaw and screw replaced), slender full stock covered with black leather and with nielloed silver mounts chased with scrollwork, hollow spherical nielloed silver pommel with suspension-ring, button trigger with encrusted gold decoration, and slender false ramrod of nielloed silver, the silver back-strap with nielloed inscription in cyrillic, early 19th Century