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A HEAVY MATCHLOCK GUN (ARQUEBUS)
Signed Matsudaira Yamato no kami Mitsukuni zo, 19th Century
The iron octagonal barrel with garlic-shaped muzzle decorated with birds flying among plum trees and a butterfly mon in silver nunome-zogan, the mouth of the muzzle similarly decorated with karakusa, wood stock, brass lock-plate, spring and match-holder (stock cracked)
length 72.2cm., breech 5.2cm, muzzle 4.1cm.
Signed Matsudaira Yamato no kami Mitsukuni zo, 19th Century
The iron octagonal barrel with garlic-shaped muzzle decorated with birds flying among plum trees and a butterfly mon in silver nunome-zogan, the mouth of the muzzle similarly decorated with karakusa, wood stock, brass lock-plate, spring and match-holder (stock cracked)
length 72.2cm., breech 5.2cm, muzzle 4.1cm.