Lot Essay
A very similar blunderbuss is in the Tariq Rajab Museum, (Robert Elgood, Firearms of the Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum, Kuwait, London, 1995, fig. 78, p. 120)
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NORTH-WEST IRAN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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A QAJAR IVORY INLAID BLUNDERBUSS
NORTH-WEST IRAN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The watered-steel barrel widening towards the mouth with two later added silver clamps, miquelet lock with manufacturer's stamp reading bandeh, the butt and rear section of the stock with ivory and brass inlaid decoration, the edge of butt with ivory plate and surrounded by chevron pattern, silver wire grip, white metal added lattice to sides of butt
14¾in. (37.5cm.) long
NORTH-WEST IRAN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The watered-steel barrel widening towards the mouth with two later added silver clamps, miquelet lock with manufacturer's stamp reading bandeh, the butt and rear section of the stock with ivory and brass inlaid decoration, the edge of butt with ivory plate and surrounded by chevron pattern, silver wire grip, white metal added lattice to sides of butt
14¾in. (37.5cm.) long
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