with octagonal swamped sighted Ottoman barrel inlaid with silver lines at the muzzle and breech, the latter struck with a copper alloy-lined barrelsmith’s mark an incorporating a pierced standing back-sight, flat lock-plate with rounded tail, fitted with external mechanism with delicately filed details, full stock moulded over the fore-end (repairs), of ‘wheel-lock’ form about the lock, and with strongly curved faceted butt, lightly incised with foliage and linear designs, steel mounts comprising trigger-guard, a pair of ramrod-pipes, two sling mounts and fore-end cap (later ramrod), 106.0 cm barrel
Sold for £700
with octagonal swamped sighted Ottoman barrel inlaid with silver lines at the muzzle and breech, the latter struck with a copper alloy-lined barrelsmith’s mark an incorporating a pierced standing back-sight, flat lock-plate with rounded tail, fitted with external mechanism with delicately filed details, full stock moulded over the fore-end (repairs), of ‘wheel-lock’ form about the lock, and with strongly curved faceted butt, lightly incised with foliage and linear designs, steel mounts comprising trigger-guard, a pair of ramrod-pipes, two sling mounts and fore-end cap (later ramrod), 106.0 cm barrel