Lot Essay
Probably from a German Gewehrkammer, and captured at the relief of the siege of Vienna in 1683
Details
A 10-BORE TURKISH MIQUELET-LOCK GUN
17TH CENTURY
Rebuilt from matchlock, with octagonal sighted barrel now blued and bored smooth, inlaid with panels of silver arabesques at the muzzle and breech and with single-aperture standing back-sight (breech band missing), lock with brass-lined stamp and chiselled details, Circassian walnut three-quarter stock (lightly wormed) with shaped horn and mother-of-pearl inlays on the slender faceted butt, leather finger-pad, iron trigger-guard, horn fore-end cap, and iron-mounted ramrod (rear section of butt replaced)
34¾in. barrel
17TH CENTURY
Rebuilt from matchlock, with octagonal sighted barrel now blued and bored smooth, inlaid with panels of silver arabesques at the muzzle and breech and with single-aperture standing back-sight (breech band missing), lock with brass-lined stamp and chiselled details, Circassian walnut three-quarter stock (lightly wormed) with shaped horn and mother-of-pearl inlays on the slender faceted butt, leather finger-pad, iron trigger-guard, horn fore-end cap, and iron-mounted ramrod (rear section of butt replaced)
34¾in. barrel