An Indian matchlock gun, the flared muzzle and breech decorated with chiselled and gilt foliage, border engraved, iron lock-plates each with pierced foliate finial, walnut full stock (incomplete), lacquered with gilt cartouches and with a design of overlapping scales -- 48¾in. long; another, the barrel decorated over nearly its entire length with a punch design, flared muzzle chiselled with foliage, iron lock-plates with pierced borders, pierced iron trigger, wooden full stock and iron ram rod -- 87¼in. long; and three others similar (all in poor conditon) -- the longest 78¾in. long, 18th/19th century.

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An Indian matchlock gun, the flared muzzle and breech decorated with chiselled and gilt foliage, border engraved, iron lock-plates each with pierced foliate finial, walnut full stock (incomplete), lacquered with gilt cartouches and with a design of overlapping scales -- 48¾in. long; another, the barrel decorated over nearly its entire length with a punch design, flared muzzle chiselled with foliage, iron lock-plates with pierced borders, pierced iron trigger, wooden full stock and iron ram rod -- 87¼in. long; and three others similar (all in poor conditon) -- the longest 78¾in. long, 18th/19th century.
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