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LATE 18TH CENTURY
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A TURKISH MIQUELET-LOCK CARBINE
Late 18th Century
With rifled octagonal barrel inlaid with silver foliage and scrollwork in clusters over its entire length, standing back-sight, and retained by three silver bands chased with scrolling foliage, silver-encrusted lock struck with maker's mark, wooden three-quarter stock inlaid with a series of differing patterns of minute brass nails and small brass geometric roundels, ornate panels of contrasting white horn over the rear, the butt also incorporating a section formed of contrasting fillets of dark and white horn, and with iron button trigger (ramrod replaced, fore-end chipped, the fore-end cap and small pieces of inlay missing).
27in (68.1cm) barrel
Late 18
With rifled octagonal barrel inlaid with silver foliage and scrollwork in clusters over its entire length, standing back-sight, and retained by three silver bands chased with scrolling foliage, silver-encrusted lock struck with maker's mark, wooden three-quarter stock inlaid with a series of differing patterns of minute brass nails and small brass geometric roundels, ornate panels of contrasting white horn over the rear, the butt also incorporating a section formed of contrasting fillets of dark and white horn, and with iron button trigger (ramrod replaced, fore-end chipped, the fore-end cap and small pieces of inlay missing).
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