Product Details
A FINE TURKISH 12-BORE HEAVY-BARRELLED PERCUSSION RIFLE,
late 18th century, converted from miquelet-lock, with 47 1/4in. swamped octagonal damascus barrel rifled with nine grooves and with a chiselled panel at the breech and muzzle each with gold-encrusted koftgari decoration, characteristic standing rear-sight pierced with five sighting-apertures and decorated en suite, tang with further gold-damascened koftgari-work, characteristic Circassian walnut full stock (some cracks, minor chips to fore-end) with three-piece fore-end and band of inlaid engraved bone on the butt, European border and scroll engraved lock (nipple and drum missing), trigger-plate and border and scroll engraved trigger-guard with pineapple finial, later brass barrel-band, iron sling mounts each with bone escutcheons (one incomplete, another missing), and iron ramrod with gold-damascened tip.
Estimate £1,500-2,000
THE ABOVE LOT IS PURCHASED AS AN EXEMPT ITEM UNDER SECTION 58 (2) OF THE 1968 FIREARMS ACT. TO BE HELD AS A CURIOSITY OR ORNAMENT.