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AN IMPRESSIVE CASED SET OF WEAPONS PRESENTED TO CAPTAIN COUNT ENRICO MILLO (1865-1935) IN 1912
The weapons 18th 19th Century
Comprising: a Balkan all-metal flintlock holster pistol with three-stage barrel engraved with scrolls on top of the breech and with spurious proof marks, signed rounded lock, gilt full stock cast and chased in relief with ribbons, flower-heads, foliage, and martial trophies and heightened with niello, muzzle band en suite, pierced trigger, spirally fluted pommel, and false ramrod, with its accessories; a Russian kindjal with double-edged fullered blade, the hilt and scabbard entirely covered with gilt nielloed white-metal chased with formal ornament; a Turkish cartridge box of gilt white-metal chased with nielloed designs involving mosques, axes, and stars and crescents; and an Indo-Persian horseman's axe (Tabarzin) with heavy iron head decorated with gold-damascened designs of running flowers and foliage, the blade partly chiselled in low relief with gilt arabesques, the haft encased in silvered copper, spirally fluted and chased with bands of acanthus foliage: in brass-bound fitted case lined in red velvet with gilt galloon, the lid with a large bronze plaque inscribed 'Al Commandante Di Vascello Enrico Millo Gli Ufficiali Del Gruppo Siluranti Dardanelli 18 Luglio 1912'
31½in. (80cm.) wide
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