18TH CENTURY
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A CONTINENTAL FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL WITH OTTOMAN BARREL
18TH CENTURY
With swamped etched twist barrel cut with a series of raised small cartouches at the breech and muzzle, these filled with gold koftgari scrollwork, the barrel tang with a quotation from the Qur'an also damascened in gold (surah al-Saff (LXI), part of 13), engraved lock cut with a spurious Western signature, figured maple full stock, full iron mounts chiselled in low relief, including side-plate pierced with foliage and half-figures, horn fore-end cap, and bone-tipped wooden ramrod
19¾in (50.2cm)
18TH CENTURY
With swamped etched twist barrel cut with a series of raised small cartouches at the breech and muzzle, these filled with gold koftgari scrollwork, the barrel tang with a quotation from the Qur'an also damascened in gold (surah al-Saff (LXI), part of 13), engraved lock cut with a spurious Western signature, figured maple full stock, full iron mounts chiselled in low relief, including side-plate pierced with foliage and half-figures, horn fore-end cap, and bone-tipped wooden ramrod
19¾in (50.2cm)
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