A RARE BALKAN (HERZEGOVINAN) MIQUELET-LOCK GUN FOR BALL with Turkish four-stage twist sighted barrel, partly polygonal in front of the breech and decorated over its length with encrusted silver strapwork, engraved interlaced arabesques and circles, and around the muzzle with a petal design, lock of shaped outline and with chiselled details, three-quarter length wooden stock, the butt inlaid with green-stained horn panels inlaid with rosettes of brass and horn, engraved mother-of-pearl ball-flowers, circles and brass nails, and segmented by shims of wood and horn inlaid en suite, iron mounts including fore-end cap and a band around the base of the butt, each cut with lines, trigger-guard, two iron suspension rings, and associated iron-tipped ramrod, late 17th Century