A NORTH AFRICAN TOE-LOCK GUN with octagonal sighted barrel with gold-lined maker's(?) mark at the breech, and retained by a later pierced and engraved silver band, large lock partly overlaid with chiselled brass panels and inscribed 'Work of Muhammed', together with the date, three-quarter stock inlaid with pierced and engraved silver panels (one incomplete, one replaced) set with corals (some missing), and with silver plaque behind the barrel-tang engraved with owner's name 'Ibu al-Hamid(?)', brass butt-plate engraved with foliage, baluster trigger, horn fore-end cap, and original wooden ramrod with embossed white-metal tip, dated (1)202 for 1788AD