A CAUCASIAN MIQUELET-LOCK PISTOL, the etched twist barrel with sighting flat, chiselled details at the muzzle and breech and decorated with gold-damascened arabesques and foliage, the breech with two gold-lined stamps, full length tang incorporating the back-sight and decorated with a design of gold-damascened running foliage, gold-damascened lock, figured Circassian walnut full stock, the butt inlaid with shaped mother-of-pearl panels, small horn and brass rosettes and brass nails, nielloed white-metal mounts chased with foliage comprising three barrel-bands and ball pommel, gold-damascened iron button trigger, and later ramrod, 19th Century