LATE 18TH CENTURY
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A 25-Bore Caucasian Silver-Mounted Miquelet-Lock Rifle
Late 18th Century
With swamped twist octagonal barrel ribbed with eight grooves and inlaid with gold lines and scrollwork at the muzzle and breech, and struck with an indistinct mark (possibly 'Mir 'Ali') on the latter, standing single-aperture back-sight, the tang with applied nielloed silver panel (incomplete), characteristic lock finely gold-damascened with flowers, scrolls and lattice-work, finely figured Circassian walnut full stock sparsely inlaid with ivory panels and small brass roundels and decorated with applied nielloed silver panels, nielloed silver fore-end cap and barrel bands (minor losses), walrus ivory butt-cap, gold-damascened button trigger, and wooden ramrod with gold-damascened iron tip
44¼in. (112.4cm.) barrel
Late 18th Century
With swamped twist octagonal barrel ribbed with eight grooves and inlaid with gold lines and scrollwork at the muzzle and breech, and struck with an indistinct mark (possibly 'Mir 'Ali') on the latter, standing single-aperture back-sight, the tang with applied nielloed silver panel (incomplete), characteristic lock finely gold-damascened with flowers, scrolls and lattice-work, finely figured Circassian walnut full stock sparsely inlaid with ivory panels and small brass roundels and decorated with applied nielloed silver panels, nielloed silver fore-end cap and barrel bands (minor losses), walrus ivory butt-cap, gold-damascened button trigger, and wooden ramrod with gold-damascened iron tip
44¼in. (112.4cm.) barrel