A TURKISH MIQUELET-LOCK RIFLE with swamped etched twist octagonal sighted barrel encrusted with designs of engraved silver foliage over its entire length, and now retained by a silver band, standing back-sight, tang and lock decorated en suite, Circassian walnut full stock (fore-end damaged) inlaid with rosettes of brass and horn, and green-stained bone panels, those around the tang divided by white horn lines and inlaid with rosettes of brass and horn, the butt profusely inlaid with rosettes en suite and segmented by lines and bands of white and green-stained bone (incomplete), iron button-trigger, and inlaid green-stained fore-end cap (ramrod missing), 18th Century

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A TURKISH MIQUELET-LOCK RIFLE with swamped etched twist octagonal sighted barrel encrusted with designs of engraved silver foliage over its entire length, and now retained by a silver band, standing back-sight, tang and lock decorated en suite, Circassian walnut full stock (fore-end damaged) inlaid with rosettes of brass and horn, and green-stained bone panels, those around the tang divided by white horn lines and inlaid with rosettes of brass and horn, the butt profusely inlaid with rosettes en suite and segmented by lines and bands of white and green-stained bone (incomplete), iron button-trigger, and inlaid green-stained fore-end cap (ramrod missing), 18th Century
29½in. barrel

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