拍品专文
A shorter flintlock rifle on a closely comparable stock is in the Tareq Rajab Museum, Kuwait (Robert Elgood, 1995, pp. 54, 191, no.12). The barrel of that rifle is stamped with a maker’s mark reading ‘work of Muhammad’. Other comparable flintlock rifles are in the Wallace Collection, London (OA2087; Thom Richardson and Paula Turner (eds.), The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Arms & Armour from Asia, Africa and the Ottoman World, London, 2026, p.401), and the Benaki Museum, Athens (5791). The latter was purportedly owned by Nikolaos Petimezas (1790-1865), a key figure in the Greek War of Independence (Robert Elgood, The Arms of Greece and her Balkan Neighbours during the Ottoman Period, London, 2009, p.173).
This lot has a standard ivory exemption (ref. C9N1RKH9).
This lot has a standard ivory exemption (ref. C9N1RKH9).
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