A 28 BORE JAPANESE SNAP-MATCHLOCK MUSKET, CIRCA 1870 with octagonal swamped sighted barrel inlaid with a silver mon at the breech and signed beneath, retained by a broad brass muzzle band and a further band at the breech extending over the tang and engraved with a warrior mask, integral pan with brass pivot-cover and fence, brass lock, sprung moulded brass serpentine, brass trigger, cherrywood full stock (fore-end chipped), and brass mounts including trigger-guard, trigger-plate, and a series of foliate rondels including four pairs of barrel bolt escutcheons (ramrod missing) 101cm; 39 3/4in barrel The signature beneath the breech reads: 'Koshu ju, Wadaharudayu zo kore ' (Wadaharudayu made this living in Koshu)