Lot Essay
For an Ottoman miquelet-lock gun of similar form see Philippe Missillier and Howard Ricketts, Splendeur Des Armes Orientales, 4 May-31 July 1988, pp. 30-31
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LATE 17TH CENTURY
Details
A 13-bore Ottoman Turkish miquelet-lock gun for ball
late 17th Century
With two-stage sighted barrel, polygonal in front of the breech and sparsley decorated with chiselled panels, the breech of hog's back section, struck with a maker's mark, and decorated with gold-damascening, bulbous polygonal muzzle damascened en suite (damascening worn) and fitted with a slotted fore-sight, border engraved lock of shaped outline, three-quarter length wooden stock (some worming and minor damage), brass mounts including pierced and engraved side-plate, and a band around the base of the butt with separate long tang (incomplete), each cut with lines, cast and chased trigger-guard, and two iron suspension rings (ramrod missing)
41½in. (105.4cm.) barrel
late 17th Century
With two-stage sighted barrel, polygonal in front of the breech and sparsley decorated with chiselled panels, the breech of hog's back section, struck with a maker's mark, and decorated with gold-damascening, bulbous polygonal muzzle damascened en suite (damascening worn) and fitted with a slotted fore-sight, border engraved lock of shaped outline, three-quarter length wooden stock (some worming and minor damage), brass mounts including pierced and engraved side-plate, and a band around the base of the butt with separate long tang (incomplete), each cut with lines, cast and chased trigger-guard, and two iron suspension rings (ramrod missing)
41½in. (105.4cm.) barrel