Lot 123
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An Unusual 22-Bore Indian Flintlock Gun

CIRCA 1800

Price realised GBP 345
Estimate
GBP 300 – GBP 400
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An Unusual 22-Bore Indian Flintlock Gun

CIRCA 1800

Price realised GBP 345
Price realised GBP 345
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An Unusual 22-Bore Indian Flintlock Gun
Circa 1800
With etched twist barrel swamped at the muzzle and breech and sparsely inlaid with silver and gold, copper fore-sight, and open standing back-sight, gold-lined touch-hole, flat lock in the English manner with roller and raised pan, hardwood full stock (fore-stock chipped), watered steel mounts (one missing), silver butt-plate, scrolled engraved silver trigger-guard in the English manner, iron sling mounts, and original iron ramrod
52in. (132.2cm.) barrel
Cf. a similar gun described and illustrated in Robert Elgood, Firearms of the Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum, Kuwait, pp.147, 203, plates 94 and 94 a-d

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