A Persian short fully stock gun with a miquelet lock c 1800. Slender butt, small working lock held by two screws with washers in bone, c 90 cm long octagonal Damascus barrel in calibre c 13,5 mm. with a Persian maker’s mark held to the stock by two bone pins and three cappucines in silver. The fore-stock ends in white bone.

The iron dark. The bone at the front of the stock may be newer than the gun.

Paintings, furniture and varia, 28 October 2024

Arms, Armour and Sporting Guns

6,000 DKK